The whole idea of exporting something as fragile and as idioscincratic as what we call democratic goverment just make me seek. You can export goods, you can export services, but you cannot export cultural behaviour, ideologies, believings. There are republics in islamic countries, that Americans would like to make dissappear, like Iran, and Siria that are in some way democratic. Instead they make a model out of Irak, whose Democracy will last as long as there are U.S. troops invading.
There is no blueprint to democratic rule, as there is to tiranny, that is why it was so easy for the totalitarian goverments of the XX century to ally, and it took almost 3 years of the II WW to make the same thing to democracies. All over the world we should stand for those voices that are suffocated by tyranny, but i do no think we can make all the world the same place as New York or London or Paris. In fact most people in the world live without electrical power, just not to talk about freedom.
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The whole idea of exporting something as fragile and as idioscincratic as what we call democratic goverment just make me seek. You can export goods, you can export services, but you cannot export cultural behaviour, ideologies, believings. There are republics in islamic countries, that Americans would like to make dissappear, like Iran, and Siria that are in some way democratic. Instead they make a model out of Irak, whose Democracy will last as long as there are U.S. troops invading. There is no blueprint to democratic rule, as there is to tiranny, that is why it was so easy for the totalitarian goverments of the XX century to ally, and it took almost 3 years of the II WW to make the same thing to democracies. All over the world we should stand for those voices that are suffocated by tyranny, but i do no think we can make all the world the same place as New York or London or Paris. In fact most people in the world live without electrical power, just not to talk about freedom.