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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