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A plan for the elimination of dictatorship
Claudia Rosett, WSJ:
We got Saddam Hussein. Now, what about all the other dictators? That long list of surviving despots makes up the true axis of evil, which is the source of the worst troubles of the modern world, according to author and former U.S. ambassador Mark Palmer. Replacing every last one of them with democracy is not only desirable, says Mr. Palmer [in Breaking the Real Axis of Evil]; it is doable. ... A mix of broad argument and gritty guide, Breaking the Real Axis of Evil is basically an inspired field manual on the why and how of replacing tyranny with democracy--the sooner the better and, where possible, without violence. ... The ideas here are entirely in keeping with the democratic principles that President Bush has laid out these past two years as the basis of U.S. foreign policy. What's radical about Mr. Palmer's book is that he suggests scores of practical ways in which the U.S. and its democratic allies can live up to these principles, not only in Iraq but around the globe.
Palmer lists the miseries that still plague much of mankind --famine, refugees, poverty, environmental degradation, corruption, war, genocide, and terrorism
-- and he correctly classifies them all as toxic weeds that bloom in the deep shade of dictatorship.
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