From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 12:43:33 MST
> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
> (Much elided...I just wanted to comment on this one idea)
> You don't create democratic free markets by force.
That's a very curious assertion. Frankly, I'm aware of very few
reasonably free nations that /weren't/ created by force. We didn't
become an independent and free country because a bunch of guys
signed a declaration; we became free because when our British
rulers sent troops to enforce their rule, we killed them. Most
of Europe fought wars to throw off their monarchies; we rebuilt
Germany and Japan ourselves with American troops. About the only
important democracy I know of that got that way in a reasonably
bloodless way is the UK.
History does not seem to support your assertion.
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