• crackajack@reddthat.com
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    Not sure where you have been in the past years but ISIS and Islamists in Libya.

    The Middle East is a curious place. Regime change doesn’t work if the population are too fractured for nation building, which Middle Eastern countries has plenty of. It is tragic to argue that living under authoritarians that provide stability is better than living free but without law and order.

    I’m an advocate for democracy as much as the next person, but the secular dictators are what kept Islamic extremism in check. In this case, the dictators are the lesser evils. Which is why people accept that Bashar Al Assad won the Syrian civil war instead of placing faith on any of the opposition to rule, some of whom are Islamists.

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      1 year ago

      I would, quite frankly, rather live in a world with more democracies and more extremists than a world with fewer of both.

      Liberal Democracy is the only acceptable form of governance.

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        1 year ago

        Liberal democracy only works if people are A) well educated and informed and B) have a strong identity as a group. Societies need to be well informed on issues and work towards finding solutions that benefit all. Unfortunately, many countries lack either or both.