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https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/10/lebanese-democracy/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/10/lebanese-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-31952 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:24:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/10/lebanese-democracy/#comment-31952 It’s amazing how the Hedgemony talks about democracy and then does its absolute worst to alienate our most democratic friend in the area, Turkey, and most democratic opponent, Iran, while sucking up to a bunch of regimes that have their feet firmly planted in the feudal system.

]]> https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/10/lebanese-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-31944 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:52:05 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/10/lebanese-democracy/#comment-31944 Well, it’s certainly more democratic than the neighboring countries, where two of them (Jordan and Syria) don’t have meaningful elections at all, while one of them (Israel) disenfranchises the majority of its citizens by claiming that they voluntarily relinquished their citizenship in 1948 (“voluntarily”, that is, with a little help from armed gunmen going through their villages and threatening to kill them unless they got out of town ASAP, but hey, what’s a little terrorism between friends?). Lebanon certainly is no democratic paradise, but what country in that area of the world is? Closest I can think of is Turkey, and even there the military keeps a close and nervous eye upon the democratically elected government to make sure it doesn’t go against Attaturk’s dictate of no religion in government, whereas probably a majority of Turks would have no problem voting to make Turkey into an Islamic state.

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