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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
Bush and others have been pushing for Democracy in the Middle East and well...Palestinians (sp?) had a democratic election basically and elected a Terrorist group. What surprises me kinda is that the news media hasnt grasped that Bush and the administration push for Democracy and ahve seen it go exactly the opposite of what they wanted.
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The idea was to start a democracy in one of the more westernized countries in the Middle East. Iraq has a great amount of infrstructure, resources and educated people. Its almost the ideal country located in the Middle East in which to start a democracy (Iran being the best, IMO).
Meanwhile, Palestine isn't even a nation and they've been embroiled in a bitter feud with Israel for decades if not thousands of years. I'm not happy about the election in the least, but their situation is a unique one in their region and maybe unique in the entire world. Hamas being elected is horrific, though, and pretty much destroys all of the progress that has been made over the last few years.
Also, the Palestinian election isn't the only example of Middle Eastern democracy under the Bush whitehouse. There is also Afghanistan and Iraq, with both election running pretty smoothly considering the violence in the region and with satisfactory results.
My opinion on Middle Eastern democracy? Its too late. The writing is already on the wall and its written in blood. I stated not too long ago that I thought there would be a war between Islam and the west within 50 years, and I'm going to change that prediction.
There will be blood in the streets on every Western European nation within 10-15 years. Islam will grow to the point that it will not tolerate Western/Christian democracy and there will be violence that makes the violence seen today look like a Cabbage Patch picnic. We can already see the signs today. First the month long riot that ran across France, now embassies are being attacked and news organizations are knucking under to fear because of a ****ING CARTOON.
The only thing that will prevent violence is either europe giving governing control to Islamic groups to avoid violence or islam goes under a massive reformation in the next decade. I was hoping that installing democracy in the Middle East would prevent the coming storm, but its already too late.
All I have to say is that I thank God I live in the US where I have millions of crazy-ass tobacco chewing, gun toting evangelicals who won't let that happen here. How about that for irony?