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I want to know what America is saying behind closed doors to him. I think we are saving face before the media but telling him we won't cut military aid unless he goes too far, because the truth is we need Pakistan to be stable.
Free and fair elections will elect Islamic radicals and they will have nuke access...that is reality.
We should stop setting outselves up this way and say something like:
"while we prefer democracy, the greater issue in the developing world is political stability and economic development because we recognize that not all countries are immediately able to convert their nations into liberal democracies in the Western tradition, if ever, and we will judge each nation based on its specific situation. ” This might solve a lot of issues.
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