From: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:39:09 -0700 (PDT)
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: Short AP Rant [POLITICAL NOISE]
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At 07:27 AM 4/20/97 +0800, jamesd wrote:
>The election of various unpleasant Islamic Fundamentalist regimes.
>In particular, it seems likely that had the generals not violently 
>overthrown democracy in Algeria, the democratically elected
>representatives of the people would have proceeded to kill off
>everyone they deemed insufficiently Islamic, a very substantial
>minority, a minority which would doubtless have included most of 
>the generals and their families.

The Islamic party didn't start killing off foreigners until the
French and other Westerners supported the generals who overthrew them.
It's funny how a modern liberal democracy like the US will
go to war and kill 6000 people in Panama just because one of their
ex-employees is embarassing them by not leaving the Presidency after
his term is up ("We had to protect democracy"), but when a military
junta takes over from a non-pro-CIA government, they support the military.

>American Civil war.
(We've done that rant here a few times :-)




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