[lbo-talk] Fwd: Should Iraq Be Democratized?

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This is tiresome. If America were a democracy, Bush wouldn't be President. But we are not talking about Platonic ideals. The non-democarcy envisaged by the Soviet-era fans of Pinochet and acolytes of Kirkpatrick was a right wing dictatorship or military rule -- _no_ elections (not just unfair ones), no free speech, no civil liberties, Zyganov would have been in a concentration camp or dead under them, not lerading the opposition. This is too obvious to say. Please note that I also put "democrats" in scare quotes in describing Yeltsin and Putin. jks

Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>This was the line of Jean Kirkpatrick and her followers among some of the 
>pre-post-Soviet "intelligentsia." Turned out to be wrong there. "Democrats" 
>like Yeltsin and Putin were perfectly able to marginalize unacceptable 
>politics. jks
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If Russia had been a democracy, Zyuganov would have been president from 
1996-2000.

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