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Comments on: What Hath The Shrubbery Wrought? https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/04/what-hath-the-shrubbery-wrought/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:46:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/04/what-hath-the-shrubbery-wrought/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:46:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/04/what-hath-the-shrubbery-wrought/#comment-296 This is the problem of imposing democracy, rather than nurturing it: people who have never had it, don’t know what to do with it. Unfortunately demagogues do know how to use it and the results aren’t pretty.

This is why you don’t go in without a plan to get out.

People never learned or forget that one-third of the population of the thirteen colonies had no opinion either way about the Revolution, and we were ostensively ruled by a democratic country.

]]> By: andante https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/04/what-hath-the-shrubbery-wrought/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:19:40 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/04/04/what-hath-the-shrubbery-wrought/#comment-294 “Peace! Bread! Land!”

I suppose Iraqis have land, but peace and bread aren’t so plentiful. And what good is land if you’re starving and face death every day? I suspect many Iraqis would welcome a Soviet-style system.

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