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To: Nathan Zachary
Just think in 200 years they will become just like America today!

You're quite the optimist. I'm not. I can think of other outcomes: Wasn't Hitler elected by a democracy?

5 posted on 05/01/2005 3:49:37 AM PDT by Petronius (Hunter: Shine On You Crazy Diamond!)
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To: Petronius

"Wasn't Hitler elected by a democracy?"

As a matter of fact, no. The election of Hitler is one of those "facts" that EVERYBODY knows, but just isn't so.

The Germans that election elected national hero Paul Von Hindenberg. The nazi party only garnered about a third of the vote, but the field marshall thought it good politics to placate this minority by APPOINTING Hitler to the post of Chancellor.

If Hindenberg had been less a soldier and more a politician this might have been a good idea too.


6 posted on 05/01/2005 4:15:36 AM PDT by tlb
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To: Petronius

I can think of other outcomes

There are (and never were) any guarantees in this thing. The alteratives to spreading freedom to this part of the world are...what? Turning (say) Syria into a glowing hole in the ground? Slaughter 30-40 million people?


8 posted on 05/01/2005 9:09:28 PM PDT by Valin (There is no sense in being pessimistic. It would not work anyway.)
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