Democracy Isn't For Our Friends Only
by Robert Fisk
Oh no, not more democracy again! Didn't we award this to those
Algerians in 1990? And didn't they reward us with that nice gift of an
Islamist government -- and then they so benevolently canceled the second
round of elections? Thank goodness for that!
True, the Afghans elected a round of representatives, albeit they
included warlords and murderers. But the Iraqis last year elected the Dawa
party in Baghdad, which was responsible -- let us not speak this in
Washington, D.C. -- for most of the kidnappings of Westerners in Beirut in
the '80s, the car bombing of the (late) emir and the United States and
French embassies in Kuwait.
Now, horror of horrors, the Palestinians have elected the wrong party.
They were supposed to have given their support to the pro-Western, corrupt,
absolutely pro-American Fatah, which had promised to "control" them, rather
than to Hamas, which said they would represent them. And, bingo, they have
chosen the wrong party again.
Result: 76 of 132 seats. That just about does it. What are we to do
with people who don't vote the way they should?
Find out here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0131-20.htm
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