No, They Cannot

Submitted by Srini Varadarajan (United States), Mar 23, 2005 at 08:09

One need only look at the record of attempts at democracy: between 1945 and 1990, it was THREE attempts yielding FOUR failures.

While Afghanistan and Iraq are "pending judgement", even if BOTH of them succeed it leaves a failure rate of 80% (one of them succeed, cent-percent).

For success, I'll use 10 years completion with actual elections, no coups, etc.

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