According to one neocon, completely incapable of democracy
-Headline of the Day-
"Former Bush-Cheney National Spokesman Thinks Muslims Are Incapable Of Democracy: 'This Is The Middle East'."
If you want an accurate and clear-eyed view of the middle east, you talk to a neocon -- because they've been so right on everything so far.
So it shouldn't surprise anyone that Fox News turned to Terry Holt, a former national spokesman for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, to talk about the prospects for democracy in the newly-Mubarak-free Egypt. Foxbot Martha MacCallum said that Egyptian people "want democracy, they’re tired of being repressed, they want something better."
Nononononono! said Holt. Democracy is beyond the monkey-people of Egypt, because they're all like Arab and stuff. See, the "traditions there do not support their embracing" democracy, because it's an alien concept. Never mind that they're talking about democracy all the damned time, Egyptians have never even heard of it.
Kind makes you wonder why the neocons wanted to dick around with democracy in Iraq, doesn't it? (ThinkProgress, with video)
-Cartoon time with Mark Fiore-
Hey kids, you know that Ariana Huggington lady? She just got richer! Yay!
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Maybe the rest of us just got a little poorer, though... (MarkFiore.com)
-Bonus HotD-
"Republicans turn Congress into 'clogged toilet,' says Democratic lawmaker."
Cogent, concise, and accurate. (The Hill)
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vet · 738 weeks ago
There's no particular reason why Arabs can't have a democracy (Lebanon is pretty close to one). But I think it's a very US-centric mistake to assume that, just because people overthrow a dictator, "democracy" is what they're yearning for. There's quite a few places where democratic governments have been ousted, usually by the military, to wild applause from the populace.
(Pakistan would head the list, they've done it several times. Also Thailand, Fiji, Argentina, Nigeria... basically, wherever corruption is completely out of hand, people will cheer *anyone*, democrat or no, who promises to clean house.)