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Re:Secret government: America against democracy by marshray on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:31PM (#6017106)
I agree the 'democracy promotion' angle was a little play for ironic guilt. But it's his piece, his audience, and his editor.

When I hear people speaking as if 'democracy promotion' were a policy begun under Bush 43, I figure they're just young. Folks under the age of (gasp) about 38 are just not going to remember.

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Re:Secret government: America against democracy by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @09:42AM (#6019398)
I think that was what really did it for me.

These issues have been festering since the turn of the 20th century, maybe before. It's a result of one edge case piled on top of another.

To try to draw it all into some simple narrative that happened in the last 12 years? It's simplistic to the point of being preposterous.

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