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  • 'Republic, democracy, what's the difference?'

    04/03/2006 1:07:14 PM PDT · by rellimpank · 19 replies · 597+ views
    Afghan Christian learns firsthand about tyranny of majority It was Woodrow Wilson who first asserted that the United States must involve herself in overseas wars to "keep the world safe for democracy." The construction remains in style. Following the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the Bush administration, too, has justified military attacks overseas, designed to replace the oppressive governments of Afghanistan and Iraq, on the grounds that the world will be more stable, and America safer, if only we can install democracies in that benighted corner of the world. In Afghanistan we have succeeded. The government of President Hamid Karzai may...