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Re:SpaceX cleared for US military launches by ryanlol on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:58AM (#9612257)
>The middle east is migrating to democracy and has the least amount of dictators in charge in my lifetime

How's that democracy working out in Libya and Syria?

Many (probably pretty much everyone actually familiar with the situation) would argue that things were better under those dictators.

Re:SpaceX cleared for US military launches by shit_parade2 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:10PM (#9613616)
Egypt is the best example.

Go read Obama's Cairo speech, do impassioned, if only he believed in his own words.

No, instead we watched a people overthrow a corrupt regime, establish a democracy, and then continued to fund the mitary junta and ignore the country as it becamenobce more a dictatorship which just recently sentenced its former president to death.

Egypt, neighbor to Israel, and the largest secular middle Eastern country by population is too important to the supposed US political interest to allow democracy, especially if that democracy doesn't agree with our policies. It is entirely morally bankrupt, anyone who defends such policy is a warmonger.

Re:SpaceX cleared for US military launches by drzaiusapelord on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @12:28PM (#9612479)
>How's that democracy working out in Libya and Syria?

How was India immediately after its colonial rule? Or South Korea after the war?

Its incredible how people conveniently forget how long transition periods are for societies that were previous non-democratic to a democratic one. Ten to fifteen years from now it will be a very different picture. Migrating to a democratic capatalistic economy is an incredible thing. GDP comparision between North and South Korea below:

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/sites/default/files/image...

It was rough for the South Koreans until the 1970s then its been all gravy. They went from war ravage rural wasteland to the most envious economy in about 20 years.

Re:SpaceX cleared for US military launches by foobarqux on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @12:51PM (#9612665)
There is no population on earth that has been grateful for "democracy bombs" to have been dropped on them.
Re:SpaceX cleared for US military launches by ryanlol on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @07:50PM (#9615198)
Will it be different in 20 years? Or even 50? Right now these countries are warzones, and the stronger parties seem to be those more willing to pick up weapons and slaughter people.