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To: Pelham

Me too. It was a stupid idea that had nothing to do with punishing jihadi Islam. It grew out of the crackpot utopian idea that democracy is a cure-all for every ill in the world and can be easily implanted in cultures that haven’t got any of the civil society that makes democracy work in the West.


Well said.

Purple fingers don’t work in places like Iraq.


111 posted on 04/27/2015 8:47:49 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata
If you ever want to get a clear picture of the limitations of that utopian idiocy in the Middle East, just get a load of the public statements that King Abdullah of Jordan has made on the subject.

He once described democracy in the Middle East like a bus ride, where those who promote it only take the ride until they get to their own stop, then get off the bus.

It's hard to believe the citizens of a country as great as ours were so gullible to believe the kind of nation-building crap they've been fed for the last 25 years.

116 posted on 04/27/2015 8:55:17 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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