[a_Turk]

Tehheee!

[Bogey78O]

They need a stable democratic role model. Well besides Israel or Turkey right?

[polemikos]

there's nothing necessarily contradictory about Islam and democracy

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[liberalism=failure]

Islam and democracy are incompatible. The feeling of most Muslims is that the state is immoral if it is not religious.

[Bogey78O]

Just read your profile when I scrolled down and sqaw your sig. I liked this line: "I'd make the guys who wrestled that airliner from the scumbag terrorists, knowing they would crash and burn, honorary Turks"

[sheik yerbouty]

Let's not hold our collective breaths!

[First_Salute]

The lesson is, that to be free and prosper, a people must be determined, and they must be self-determined to sacrifice their lives to establish justice which adheres to the rule of law and to the peoples' soverign authority. Once established, or at least in formation, the benefits of capital investment will bear out through dedication.

What America has that is so fleeting to the rest of the world, is our living democratic-republic and rule of law; though what the world sees is wealth.

We have been giving away some of our wealth, when we should have been instructing, not about money markets, but about the business of such foreign peoples' helping each other to establish and enforce their own democratic-republics.

It's not as simple as achieving a popular vote; communist countries have a popular vote.

The success of a democratic-republic is more complex; and understanding the formula, and knowing how to teach it --- that is what we have to offer, and in my humble opinion we should.

[Post Toasties]

"I've heard from others, Arabs, Muslims from around the world, that Turkey isn't necessarily the secular country that many Muslims would emulate," Hagel said. "I happen to be a great supporter of Turkey."

Then, why don't they emulate the US? Best constitution in the world.

[Alouette]

The Bush administration is searching for an Arab model for an Islamic democracy.

Dearborn, Michigan?

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Sen. Chuck Hagel said Arab countries have rejected Turkey as a role model.

That's interesting. No reason was given why??