this post has been edited on january 21, 2005 09:45
keep this handy reference guide around the next time you are watching the news or reading cnn.com. in fact, print out 2 copies of it and tape one to the side of your monitor and the other to the side of your tv."Outposts of Tyranny":
- Cuba
- Burma
- North Korea
- Iran
- Zimbabwe
- Belarus
Allies In the War On Terror
- Tunisia
- Saudi Arabia
- Uzbekistan
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Kuwait
Ambiguous Third Category
- Russia
- China
- Vietnam
- Syria
Specifically Cited By Bush Administration As Models of Democracy
- Pakistan
- Algeria
One Election Makes a Democracy In...
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Palestine after Arafat died
One Election Does Not A Democracy Make In...
- Venezuela
- Haiti
- Palestine before Arafat died
this wonderful table was drawn up by my.
re: not that gwb is a nazi or anything, but....
history teaches us nothing
when spreading freedom and world domination are interchangable ideas
"The fashionable concentration on democracy as the main value threatened is not without danger. It is largely responsible for the misleading and unfounded belief that, so long as the ultimate source of power is the will of the majority, the power cannot be arbitrary....If democracy resolves on a task which necessarily involves the use of power which cannot be guided by fixed rules, it must become arbitrary power....and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority, democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship."
-F.A. Hayek "The Road to Serfdom" c.1944
the lexicon is being slowly but steadily and clearly changed before us
personal safety=national security=american sovereignty=the very freedom that defines our way of life, that each of us, democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, cherishes and would do anything to protect
and the only way to protect it is to spread it to foreign lands whether they want it or not
millions of otherwise right minded germans were told the same thing, and believed it, and used that belief to legitimize the power of the worst dicator the world has ever known. and millions died.
history teaches us nothing
all empires fall