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Thursday, January 20, 2005
DEMOCRACY'S LIMITS. CNN's Jeff
Greenfield got two-thirds of the way there in his analysis of Bush's
"almost startling" speech. In batting it around with Aaron Brown,
Greenfield wondered what Bush intended to do about a country like
Pakistan - an ally in the war against terrorism, but a country that
doesn't hold elections.
What Greenfield left out was that
if Pakistan did hold an election, a pretty good share of the
populace would vote for Osama bin Laden.
He could have made the same
observation about Saudi Arabia, too. And let's not forget that the
mullahs came to power in Iran through popular acclamation, even if
they're not too popular today.
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Yes, the fundamental problem with Bush's free the world campaign is that muslisms are raging lunatics. Osama bin-Laden would probably carry every Arab state and most non-Arab muslim-majority states in free elections. In fact, he would probably get the mahjority of votes among Arab muslisms in America.
Other than that, Bush's plan is fool proof.
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