From: "Phil Payne" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:446fab07{at}w3.nls.net...
> I think you underestimate the draw of freedoms, voting rights, freedom to
> bitch, commercialism, and other western "influences" that
are about to be
> released on that region.. That's what got Iran so worked up over the
> happenings in Iraq at the moment.

II think you grossly overestimate the draw of democracy in the Middle East.
They know about it and for the most part they're at least ambivalent.  What
is the point of democracy when the law cannot be changed?

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