First and foremost, Democracy is not an american invention. Even Plato was not especially fond of democracy when since his point of view it uses rhetoric and persuasion to govern. Moreover I would say most of current democratic countries use sofisms as the main form to persuade their citizens. Sometimes its obvious, just like in this case in which its also easily seen one of the main shortcomings of democracy. Invade a country with a false excuse, remain there, "say you are doing something good because you are helping them turning into a democracy" --> OMG this is a brain fart, a nonsense how in the hell do you pretend to make someone remain being democrat democratically. You can take that to many other points and still applicable. Democracy is acceptable if the population is not a bunch of idiots otherwise it turns into a disaster as it is the case. Btw there r idiots in both sides otherwise it would have been called Invasion of Iraq, with that in mind it might have even been a succes
2006-11-02
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