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Originally posted by wonderwench
Hmmm...interesting correlation with winning the Cold War.
The graph is not accurate in that includes as democracies countries which are brutally authoritarian, such as Zimbabwe. Unless a democracy has a constitution and institutions which protect human rights, it is erroneous to consider it a functioning democracy.
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So we should cut ourselves off from the outside world rather than engage with our neighbors and encourage a free society? That seems to go against 200 years of democratic tradition (not to mention economic necessity). Fortress America can be no more....we live in a globalized world and must learn to coexist,