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Originally Posted by zcaveman
Maybe not every country was meant to be a democracy.
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Not in 2014 anyway. I do not believe Iraq nor Iran have ever been democracies in the US and UK understanding of the word. The Middle Eastern huge influence of religion is an incredibly hard hurdle to get over or a support depending on how you see things. I had tried to be a pen pal of my Iraqi friend after he moved back to Mosul and I ended up the Summer of 1984 in Scottsdale, AZ but his hatred of the West intensified in his letters until we both had to stop writing one another. Kind of quite a different worldview when almost every decision you make revolves around your God.