Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Real democracy

Sometimes the greatest displays of democracy are expressed in the least democratic of countries. The image of people as varied as lawyers in black suits and housewives in their shalwars marching in protest against the dictator Musharraf must surely fall within this category. For not only have these people proven the popular disatisfaction with Mushrraf's regime, they have also shamed those of us in supposedly more democratic countries who generally struggle to express interest in our own democratic life. It is worth taking pause at this moment to consider one of the key platforms of Western foreign policy, championed as ever by the United States. I speak here of the claimed interest in spreading democracy to the world. Well, if present events in Pakistan are anything to go by, Pakistanis are already democratic. They just need for you to stop supporting their tyrants and dictators!

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