The devil made me post this. First of all democracies are inherently stable ? Second Iraq and Afghanistan were stable ?

The kindest thing I can say about the ME policies of the PTB is that the PTB don't know what they are doing and are incapable of learning from their 'mistakes'.

Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #3

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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #2

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The devil made me post this. First of all democracies are inherently stable ? Second Iraq and Afghanistan were stable ?

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And third of all, democracies are signs of a mature and superior culture, one ruled by the Judeo-Christian God NOT the savage allah god of darkness.

We should've learned this by now but we're overcome by the PC mentality

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Zitat

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Bernard Lewis, the renowned Islamic scholar, believes that at the root of the protests sweeping across our region is the Arab peoples’ widespread sense of injustice
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But Lewis regards a dash toward Western-style elections, far from representing a solution to the region’s difficulties, as constituting “a dangerous aggravation” of the problem, and fears that radical Islamic movements would be best placed to exploit so misguided a move. A much better course, he says, would be to encourage the gradual development of local, self-governing institutions, in accordance with the Islamic tradition of “consultation
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What does “democracy” mean? It’s a word that’s used with very different meanings, even in different parts of the Western world. And it’s a political concept that has no history, no record whatever in the Arab, Islamic world.
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We, in the Western world particularly, tend to think of democracy in our own terms – that’s natural and normal – to mean periodic elections in our style. But I think it’s a great mistake to try and think of the Middle East in those terms and that can only lead to disastrous results, as you’ve already seen in various places. They are simply not ready for free and fair elections.
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In the Western world, we talk all the time about freedom. In the Islamic world, freedom is not a political term. It’s a legal term: Freedom as opposed to slavery
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In Muslim terms, the aim of good government is justice.

The major contrast is not between freedom and tyranny, between freedom and servitude, but between justice and oppression.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/....aspx?id=209770

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