Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for your thoughtful and real observations Spencer. Do you think it realistic for outside cultures (British, Russian, now U.S.) to arrive uninvited and attempt to deliver democracy (or any other form of governance) to these areas (with guns in hand)? especially when you point out the previous failures. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jan 3, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > My main point is really that we should not give up hope but we > should also deal with the reality that this is a long road which I > fear western democracies are not willing to walk to the end. The > British tried and failed. The Russians did no better.