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Saturday, April 28. 2007

Rebels in Iran

I do not think everyone in Iran takes the Mullahs seriously. The Iranians aren't stupid, and they have strong Western sympathies. Good people, and many of them quite worldly, educated, and sophisticated, but with a populist government from hell. With a decent election, they could be like Turkey in a minute, and applying for membership in NATO and the EU.

Their people want to join the real world, but they have been outvoted by the peasants. That's democracy, assuming their votes are legit, which one might reasonably doubt. I like the Iranians, but their leaders are insane.

Gateway.

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 15:26 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Roger Simon just used the phrase "two cheers for democracy" --Barrister & Simon on same wavelength today. True enough, from Palestine to Venezuela and many points beteen, democracy has been rejecting the USA free-market, rule-of-law, universal human-rights form.

I guess it's really 'one cheer' for the form, 'two' if it actually allows failures to be voted out, and 'three' only if it encourages virtue (to use a silly-sounding but irreplaceable old term).
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-04-28 16:36 (Reply)
There is a weak side of human nature which longs for a benign dictatorship. A strong father to endlessly care for them.

Freedom requires more of people. It requires their best. Many people are lazy.
#2 The B. on 2007-04-28 16:56 (Reply)
Well, they won't be lazy much longer. Mother Nature has a way of fixing those sorts of problems. What we are is what we do.
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-04-28 18:29 (Reply)

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