From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 13:16:49 MST
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:30:08AM -0500, MaxPlumm@aol.com wrote:
> As I illustrated in my last post to you, it is highly dubious to suggest that
> Greece would've been capable of "wandering between democracy and
> authoritarianism" had the United States allowed the Soviet proxies in that
> country to emerge victorious in their civil war.
We interfered in 1947-1949, you said. What did we do when the army took over
from the democracy in the 1960s?
> "Costa Rica has been democratic for a long long time."The rest of Latin
> America was having trouble with democracy since long before Communism; it's
> not clear what the latter had to do with anything."
> "Oh, India's another counterexample. Definitely still developing, but
> democratic since independence, and leading the Nonaligned Bloc."
> Or Iran, which after 1979 was neither pro-US authoritarian nor pro-Soviet
> How do these examples invalidate the Cold War? Neither the USSR, nor the
I wasn't trying to invalidate the Cold War. I was trying to invalidate the
claim that democracy wasn't an option in the developing world, that we could
only choose between pro-US authoritarianism and Soviet totalitarianism. Yet
there were in fact democracies in the developing world.
-xx- Damien X-)
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