>Interesting program I saw the other day about Iraq I believe. The person being interviewed reckons this is the last thing the US/West and the ruling governments in most middle eastern countries want. A democracy in the middle east, one man-one vote etc, would oust the generally pro-west governments eg Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and they would be replaced by Islamic fundementalist regimes not friendly to the west eg Iran. Interesting point, I thought.
Interesting speculation. So why hasn't Turkey drifted that way? Would the other countries suffer from radical Islam if they had established themselves as democracies after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire? Would Sunni-dominated nations adopt the fundamentalist Shiite model, if free elections were allowed? So many questions!
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