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To: Destro
Everything I have ever read shows that democracy can not be imposed from outside. In all cases where democracy flourishes a pre-existing condition for its truimph existed.

Mmmm. Yes. Like Hirohito's Japan? Or Hitler's Germany?

33 posted on 01/10/2004 5:31:14 PM PST by prion
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To: prion
Everything I have ever read shows that democracy can not be imposed from outside. In all cases where democracy flourishes a pre-existing condition for its truimph existed.

Yes, exactly Like Hirohito's Japan, which before the rule of generals had a liberal (small L) representative modernizing western leaning govt and Hitler's Germany which even before the Weimar Republic had more rights for its citizens under the Kaiser than the British common man enjoyed in the British Empire.

Want to show your ignorance of history again in another example?

37 posted on 01/10/2004 5:34:20 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting www.johnathangaltfilms.com)
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