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Re:Who Are My Investors? by admax88q on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:48AM (#18272877)
> 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.

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Re:Who Are My Investors? by puranjay on Monday October 22, 2018 @05:09AM (#18273191)
Not when that democracy is imposed by an external force. There is nothing organic about, say, a US-sponsored democracy in Afghanistan or Iraq
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Re:Who Are My Investors? by aaaaaaaaaab on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:57AM (#18283377)
Democracy 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.

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