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March 29, 2006
Exporting Democracy? No, Unchaining a People
When President Bush calls for "fostering democracy," one should read this phrase as "helping a people cast off the chains that bind and the fear that paralyzes them." The difference between tyranny and liberal democracy is that in the former people are in chains, in effect prisoners of the whims and desires of the thugs that rule, and in fear over what might happen or be done to them - metaphorically, the 3am knock on the door.
One should keep this firmly in mind when coming across the assertion that we should not "export democracy." It's like saying that we should not export freedom to the victims of a kidnapping. After all, countries like North Korea, Syria, Iran, Libya, Burma, Sudan, and many others, those thugs, or their survivors, who rule took over by the force of arms, and threaten with death those who actively oppose them. Their people have been kidnapped.
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Posted by Rudy at March 29, 2006 9:10 PM
