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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Elections were scheduled? The Syrians killed the opposition. I know part of the Clinton White House SOP was killing opponents, but even he stopped short of the candidates.
Killing the opposition candidate has what to do with a democracy?
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Not much. JFK and RFK were killed, and our democracy continued on.
I'll agree that the Syrians are not democrats. A lot of people associated with the government have been killed in Iraq, too.
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I believe the point Club makes is that w/o seeing people stand up to brutal force elsewhere, the Lebanese might well have taken this more meekly.
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And while there haven't been mass demonstrations in Iraq, the Lebanese learned a thing or two from last summer's Republican National Convention, right?
