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re:From within

Raoul — 12/8/2003 5:06:43 PM (archived)

What's indeed important is to organize local elections ASAP in all the areas where there is reconstruction and improvement.

But where democracy works best is where it wasn't imposed from outside but decided from within.

We'll see.

Raoul

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An empire in all but name - Raoul - 12/7/2003 8:41:22 PM
- Did you read the bit about "attention deficit?" - Tom Brosz - 12/8/2003 6:41:08 PM
  - "It took seven years for the U.S. military to create a free Japan." - McFly - 12/8/2003 8:43:31 PM
    - "...to use the deaths of US soldiers for partisan purposes" - Tom Brosz - 12/9/2003 5:41:29 AM
  - re: Comparing with Vietnam - Raoul - 12/8/2003 8:25:06 PM
    - re: Comparing with Vietnam - McFly - 12/8/2003 8:58:30 PM
      - re: UN - Raoul - 12/8/2003 10:18:03 PM
        
        The UN's dismal record at peacekeeping - Larry J - 12/9/2003 12:43:24 AM
- With all respect, that is bunk - ebnelson - 12/8/2003 3:20:32 AM
  - re: thanks - Raoul - 12/8/2003 5:35:06 PM
    - Whole forests have been wasted decrying the non-existant American Empire - ebnelson - 12/9/2003 2:17:16 AM
- We have been refered to as an empire for the last 60 years. - Buck Galaxy - 12/7/2003 11:53:35 PM
  - re: Rebuilding itself - Raoul - 12/8/2003 6:48:35 AM
    - Democracy has taken root in every part of the world except the Arab world. - Buck Galaxy - 12/8/2003 7:43:01 AM
      - re:From within - Raoul - 12/8/2003 5:06:43 PM
        
        Raoul, a question? - FrankC - 12/8/2003 8:01:24 PM
        
        re: answer - Raoul - 12/8/2003 10:26:15 PM
        
        Seems to be working fine in Germany and Japan (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 12/8/2003 6:15:50 PM
        
        re: Germany had been a democracy, before - Raoul - 12/8/2003 7:35:03 PM
        
        Democracy - Buck Galaxy - 12/9/2003 7:30:11 AM
        
        That's a noble vision, Buck - Larry J - 12/9/2003 3:23:00 PM
        
        There are too many people whose only definition of "peace" is absence of military conflict. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/10/2003 3:01:17 AM
        
        The dismissive condescension of those who would write off the peoples of the Arab/Islamic world - ebnelson - 12/9/2003 1:42:52 PM
        
        diversity - FrankC - 12/9/2003 5:58:58 PM

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