Middle East Democracy: Blowback Through the Looking Glass

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by Robert Weitzel http://www.thousandreasons.org/oped/oped.php?article_id=458
Thursday July 17, 2008

“If I had a world of my own . . . nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would.” -Alice in Wonderland-

Alice: “You want democracy in the Middle East?”
Uncle Sam: “I do.”
Alice: “And Iran was a democracy?”
Uncle Sam: “It was.”
Alice: “With a constitution?”
Uncle Sam: “Of course!”
Alice: “But you replaced that democracy with a dictatorship?”
Uncle Sam: “ I certainly did!”
Alice: “I don’t understand you?”
Uncle Sam: “My dear, how else will democracy flourish in the Middle East?”
Alice: “It’s all so dreadfully confusing. So, you ended a democracy that was and support a “democracy” that isn’t or ever will be until it ceases being a “democracy” so that democracy will flourish in a land whose only experience of democracy has been what democracy isn’t?”"
Uncle Sam: “Well said!”

read the entire article @ http://www.thousandreasons.org/oped/oped.php?article_id=458
Alice: “It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It's only recognized as a "true" democracy if the country does whatever

our leaders (corporate and political) tell it to do.