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May 18, 2005
Coddling Dictators
As an older President Bush was told by a bolder democratic candidate thirteen years ago: Stop coddling dictators!
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan. How many more Muslim countries will blackmail us this way before we get it? The dictatorship-or-terrorist-haven choice is a total lie.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are already terrorist havens, but they're total dictatorships, too.
And Uzbekistan? It's just a dictatorship. But if you believe the Uzbek government's propaganda, they've just shot so many terrorists, well, it's hard to believe they've got any left. So I guess means they should democratize now.
Posted by James Fichter at May 18, 2005 11:54 AM
