Author Topic: Another Democracy? Could Bush Have Been Right? (Read 668 times)

Rude · « **on:** February 27, 2005, 11:19:02 AM »

Egypt!

Toad · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2005, 11:24:29 AM »

No, it was the Finns that changed Mubarak's mind.

straffo · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2005, 11:27:59 AM »

One of you is right.

NUKE · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2005, 11:28:42 AM »

But, muslims and Arabs do not want democracy or freedoms!

They want to be ruled, that's their culture

JB88 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:25:51 PM »

same as they did when they recognized the state of isreal under saddat without the need for an interventionist occupation.

(that was under carter btw)

amazing what a people can do on thier own.

oboe · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2005, 02:36:31 PM »

You guys may be a little overanxious or have pretty loose definitions of democracy.

Honestly I think it will be years before we know whether Bush was right or wrong, and even then the answer may be mixed, depending on who you talk to.

I think the news from Egyt was good, but I'm going to be skeptical for a long time to come on any recent democracy in the Middle East.

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2005, 10:57:31 AM »

Sooooooo,

Let's say I tell you there is a bear trying to kill someone behind a black curtain. So I pick up my legally purchased and registered pistol and fire into the curtain until my clip is gone. We then find out that there was no bear, but the curtain was too heavy and needed holes in it.

Would it be wrong of me to say the curtain was my objective all along?

Toad · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:10:33 AM »

Dunno, but I guess you could be happy/satisfied that the curtain has been fixed.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:11:35 AM »

The owner(s) of the curtain should have fixed it.
-SW

Toad · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:15:22 AM »

That's not what he asked.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:16:40 AM »

Yeah, well...
-SW

JB88 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2005, 11:17:36 AM »

perhaps another analogy would be better as i have no real empathy for curtains. can we say that the curtain was made of kittens or babies or something?

midnight Target · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2005, 12:03:19 PM »

That's the only analogy you're getting!

Don't make me break out another one Mr.!

JB88 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2005, 12:11:45 PM »

well dernit, thats what i was askin fer!

capt. apathy · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2005, 12:13:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Toad
Dunno, but I guess you could be happy/satisfied that the curtain has been fixed.

depending on how many men you lose in the process, how much you paid, and how much your kids and grandkids will be paying for fixing someone else's curtain.

personally I think we overpaid to fix a curtain that wasn't ours.