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Brazil isn't a monarch government anymore...
I wish this wasn't divided into three comments, it's hard to keep track of, however, I made all my comments at once. Anyway.
- That is bullcrap, about English and English Americans, what we're taught in our history books here. We completely twisted the meaning of something someone said at one point in history to make it sound like being part of a government meant being represented by it. However, that's not really the point.
- If educated, Iraq theoretically could pull off going from dicatorship to democracy. There would be struggles at first, of course, however, my whole point was you don't need to go through hunreds of years of revolts or near-revolts to get a finished piece. After something's been done a few times, other countries know how to get it running, and an educated country could get it running themselves. Russia flipped right over from communist to capitalist, for instance, and it had problems (as would any change in government or economic standard) but they were educated on it and after a while it didn't work.
"Third World countries who are "helped" by developed countries then give their resistance and terrorist groups one more excuse to terrorize: they have a puppet government, that is controlled by America the infidel."
What is this comment, exactly? Maybe it's the Morroccan part of me speaking here, but... Hello? They were already terrorizing the government, it's getting a government set up well enough so that they don't overthrow the government every 2-3 years, and, hopefully over a very long time they would go into a more peaceful way of dealing with things, maybe becoming their own political party. That was my point when I was saying the USA does not deal with things like that - our government's too stable for some terrorists to walk in and take over.
I'm sorry, but a lot of these countries need lots of help from developed nations. No nation denies that. They have undrinkable water full of sewage, they have famine, and they have extremists that throw out governments like shoes.
More importantly, much of this is indirectly or dicrectly caused by western developed countries from the past. Which means we have responsibility at hand here.
And I laugh at the military power statement... Mostly due to it's unrealism. You know, back in the day we fought our mother country, they may have been the biggest nation and best military power, however, their technology wasn't nearly as great as what modern Iraq. And technology back then was not great for boats to kill people on land. Remember, we're talking muskets here... All of the guns were about equally lousy back then, so it was basically organized military vs. unorganized militia. Plus, we had help. People want Iraq to have no help, and the civilians have to deal with people with guns, grenades, and all these things have much better aim or much more damage potential than they did in the century you're trying to compare Iraq's overthrown government with.
History and politics isn't math, you can learn how to function in different parts of it without learning the bases. I know very little of governments outside of democratic republic or other forms of republic or democracy, and yet, I know how my government functions! Amazing! Why? I'm educated and we got here, past Federalist and Anti-Federalist, and all that other junk... To here. A relatively stable government (in comparison to the ones we're arguing over). I haven't memorized hundreds and thousands of years worth of this stuff to be able to know how my government works and to be able to function in it, any more than anyone else does. Believe it or not, Iraqis are not retards, nor are these third-world country people. They are uneducated, often due to the oppression of their own government, who is corrupt.