On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Bob Beck wrote:

>       Unfortunately, fixing the government while maintaining the universal
> democracy that is practically insisted upon by the USA as world
> uber-cop makes that a very difficult task.  Democracy gets you the

wait, wait, it's only insisted on as long as you aren't a Central Asian
Republic, then the curent US Gov't administration gives them as much time
as required to achieve "democracy".

SNIP
>       While the west got to get "working" "democratic" government
> up and running while effectively preventing the unwashed masses from
> voting, thereby giving them time to get things in place to
> educate the same before allowing it.  The same is typically
> frowned upon in third world countries when the "you must have
> democracy" stick has the carrot hung to it or is shoved up
> the victim's nether regions as the case may be. Education is
> the only thing that mitigates the manipulation of the electorate
> by those seeking office.

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