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To: lqclamar

And can I ask you to state which African countries you approve of and disapprove of? Then we can determine if you support democracy or not.


493 posted on 02/03/2007 9:42:26 PM PST by zimdog
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To: zimdog
And can I ask you to state which African countries you approve of and disapprove of? Then we can determine if you support democracy or not.

There's no need to make that determination cause I'll tell you outright. Being a liberty-minded conservative rather than one of the egalitarian populists that Tocqueville warned us about, I've never expressed any particular affection for democracy. In its better forms, I view it with indifference so long as it functions to sustain liberty. At its worst, I view it as nothing more than tyrannical mob rule. In the case of Africa, I tend to view most of the countries that call themselves democracies as something closer to the latter category.

So now that that's clear it's your turn. Let's hear you be a little less ambiguous about what regimes you approve of in Africa. In fact, let's hear a little less ambiguity about your politics in general. I'm honestly curious as to whether you have a single specific conservative policy stance on much of anything.

495 posted on 02/03/2007 9:53:04 PM PST by lqclamar
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