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> I'd say that people should be allowed to manage their own affairs. > If a country is better off with a dictator, then so be it. Those do not mesh. Democracy
by admax88q 8y ago
> I'd say that people should be allowed to manage their own affairs.
> If a country is better off with a dictator, then so be it.
Those do not mesh. Democracy _is_ allowing people to manage their own affairs.
- puranjay 8y agoNot when that democracy is imposed by an external force. There is nothing organic about, say, a US-sponsored democracy in Afghanistan or Iraq
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoDemocracy is indeed. But when external forces try to impose democracy on a society not ready for it, typically all you get is a civil war netween local mini-dictators. E.g. Lybia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, countless African nations, etc.