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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
w/o Iraq voting over and over on AJ no way any of these happen. And 2 that no one else here will agree.
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I think it's an interesting question. On the one hand, I think autocracy is inherently unstable, and especially so in an increasingly globalized world (i.e. 1989 didn't happen because of Korea and Vietnam). On the other hand, there didn't seem to be much movement in that direction before we "liberated" Iraq.
Interestingly, perhaps where W deserves the clearest credit is in severely weakening the Western instinct to allow fear of unsavory democratically elected regimes to result in opposition to democracy.
