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evensevenone posted:Indonesia (250 million people, 90% Muslim), Pakistan (200 million people, 97% Muslim) and Turkey (75 million, 70% Muslim) are all functioning democracies. Ah yes Turkey's functioning democracy where the military periodically comes in to clean house. Kellsterik posted:Not to sound like a dick, but you're showing your ignorance about Iraq and Islamic law when you say that. European/American politicians and academics have been making the argument that Islam is uniquely and fundamentally backwards and incompatible with self-rule (to justify their continued occupation and control over Islamic countries- sound familiar?) since like, 1830, and you're reproducing that claim without critically thinking about whether it applies to your own society or actually describes Iraq. Uh. Wizgot posted:I'm interested in knowing how democracy was implemented so successfully in these countries by the US when they had no democratic tradition in their history. How was the US able to make these countries successfully democratic but today, in Iraq and Afghanistan, they have failed. Nukes, for one. The attacks were very effective in cowing the government and populace. Also both Germany and Japan were loving terrified about the soviet union so any dissent to US rule was silenced from fear of the alternative. tsa fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Apr 20, 2015 |
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General McArthur also formed strong alliances with the emperor and family, going out of his way to prevent some princes being tried for war crimes for things like the rape of Nanking.
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