A few weeks ago the Guardian newspaper in Britain mounted an exercise in which they invited their readers to try and influence the outcome of the US presidential election by writing letters to voters in an important swing state. The paper has been “under an unprecedented email bombardment from the United States” ever since because, to paraphrase but not much, the free thinking voters of the US fought and won a war of independence in order to be free from the political meddlings of a bunch of yellow-toothed Limey motherf*****s. One point that quite a few of the foul-mouthed correspondents made in their emails was that interference of this nature was likely to make people vote against rather than for Kerry. I think it’s quite a good argument. It makes me wonder why so many Americans think that the people of Iraq are going to embrace democracy just because their invaders have told them to. Surely the same logic applies; trying to enforce democracy will just turn people against it.
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