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I have two words of warning for those who think a force-feeding of democracy is the elixir for a sick society:

Weimar Germany



i'm not sure exactly what you're hitting at . . .



I suppose what I meant was that the ingredients involved in creating the Nazi war machine are presenting themselves in the Middle East: nascent "democracies", perceptions of humiliation, unbridled bigotry along ethnic and racial lines, and a warlike people with historical bloodlust.

I'm not illustrating anything new or proposing a solution, but what I see in Ahmadinejad's holocaust denials is a way to convince his populace that a "democratic" nation in modern times wouldn't or couldn't carry out an ethnic cleansing on that scale. The rank and file German people were largely unaware of the "final solution", and it's mechanism benefited from that ignorance.

I consider how long it has taken racism to simmer down in the United States, a nation that legislated itself out of complacency and took an active role in it's own betterment. In the Middle East, that same type of hatred is clearly being fed and cultivated. There is a tipping point out there in the ether somewhere, how many moderates are there within those regimes that might pull it back from the brink?

My point is that from a historical perspective, I see the same mechanisms in action. It's all a part of humanity's progression of course, the question is how many people are going to die for it in the next generation.

10 years, we had only one decade of "peace" between the Soviet Union falling and the Twin Towers falling. It's a shame. By all means, anyone feel free to hit me back.