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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 02:25 PM Original message |
If Libya was progressive, prosperous and advanced compared to any nation in Africa or Eastern Europe |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
1. Dictators don't equal "progressive, prosperous and advanced ." |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. The "benevolent dictator" myth lives strong in countries not ruled by dictators. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. In the minds of some here at DU they do. nt |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. Operation Ajax, our 1953 coup against the Democratic government of Iran, explains much. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's always helpful to have references to related facts placed conveniently at hand in a thread. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Because the goal is not Democratization. The goal is destabilization.nt |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
5. Libya and Iran are most different in the sense that Iran is more nation and Libya was a tribal state |
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Laluchacontinua (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
8. That area of Libya had long been an opposition area & carefully nurtured by the west as well. |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. You can ask that same question about the US. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 04:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Are you giving the US the role of Libya or the role of Iran? |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-05-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Any country in the world. |
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