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Ash_F

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8. I hate this "you can't impose democracy"/"let's spread freedom" argument.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 08:38 PM

Sep 2013

It's based on an completely false premise. You can't have a logical argument when starting with a false premise.

The US has never tried to build democracy in any country. It's barely a democracy itself with the two party system and how badly money has corrupted it.

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OBAMA: "Iraq shows us that democracy cannot simply be imposed by force" --- Take that neo-cons! [View all] kpete Sep 2013 OP

"democracy cannot simply be imposed by force" NOLALady Sep 2013 #1

Can you give one example of Obama "imposing democracy by force"? tridim Sep 2013 #2

Actually, NOLALady Sep 2013 #6

Can you imagine Bush saying this? mindwalker_i Sep 2013 #4

Did he bomb Syria? Rex Sep 2013 #12

but the war in iraq wasnt for democracy to EgyptianDentist Sep 2013 #3

The US never tried to impose Democracy. That's the big lie. Ash_F Sep 2013 #5

+100000000000 Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #7

I hate this "you can't impose democracy"/"let's spread freedom" argument. Ash_F Sep 2013 #8

Every nation wants to save face, the main point is that Obama stated what mass Republicans need Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #13

It just annoys me how, during those years, it was mostly ignored. Ash_F Sep 2013 #14

I totally agree with you but perception being in the eye of the beholder made the narrative Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #15

My comments were not so much directed at Obama, or his strategies, but at the narrative Ash_F Sep 2013 #16

That's cool as well, it should be called out, lest the people think, that's all there is. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #17

Oil, bananas, copper malaise Sep 2013 #9

Now we just need the stubborn right-wingers to listen. RedCappedBandit Sep 2013 #10

I love it when he says stuff like that! Rex Sep 2013 #11