Re: The price of the new American virtue

On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Lance McLain wrote:
>
>> They shouldn't fear democracy, but embrace it. It is the only messy  
>> way out of the whole middle east dilemma short of world war.
>
>> The trains ran on time in Germany under Hitler, but that is no  
>> reason to support him.
>
> Of course, there are two ironies here:

OK...should have known better than to invoke a Hitler analogy.

> One is that Hitler was democratically elected himself.

Of course that was a democracy turning into a dictatorship, not a  
dictatorship turning into a democracy.  So it probably applies more to  
the US than to Egypt.

I think that Democracy usually occurs organically from the people, or  
a sect of people, rather than handed down to the people via dictats  
from a ruler.

regards,
-Lance



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