Comments on: Assad Speaketh http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/assad-speaketh/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:58:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: J.Kende http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/assad-speaketh/comment-page-1/#comment-20990 J.Kende Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:49:53 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1053#comment-20990 If he were a leader with total control of the government, yet seriously dedicated to modernizing the economics and social freedoms of his country, then I could agree that immediate democracy may not be the answer. Building the institutions that make a liberal democratic nation strong, while phasing in increasingly democratic political mechanisms is fine. But he is dedicated to no such thing. Democracy may still not be the best next immediate step, but making life harder for the Assad dynasty and Ba'athist regime is. If he were a leader with total control of the government, yet seriously dedicated to modernizing the economics and social freedoms of his country, then I could agree that immediate democracy may not be the answer. Building the institutions that make a liberal democratic nation strong, while phasing in increasingly democratic political mechanisms is fine. But he is dedicated to no such thing.

Democracy may still not be the best next immediate step, but making life harder for the Assad dynasty and Ba’athist regime is.

]]> By: lane http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/assad-speaketh/comment-page-1/#comment-20897 lane Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:25:35 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1053#comment-20897 <b>Yeah Riiiight,</b> But he would say that, wouldn't he? I guarantee you if they held an election there he would be on the next Mercedes truck out of Damascus. He's a dictator installed without mandate after the death his dictator father, whose regime had no legal basis; he's famously stupid; and he's a puppet of Baathist military elite established by his father. Yeah Riiiight,

But he would say that, wouldn’t he?

I guarantee you if they held an election there he would be on the next Mercedes truck out of Damascus. He’s a dictator installed without mandate after the death his dictator father, whose regime had no legal basis; he’s famously stupid; and he’s a puppet of Baathist military elite established by his father.

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