by CKR
My Rebuttal II (with previous links)
Mark’s Rebuttal II
Mark’s Rebuttal III
Mark and I have agreed that we will end the formal debate with this round of rebuttals. Having the slight advantage of laggard posting on this round, I’ll agree with him that it’s been productive. We’ve found some points of agreement on method and specifics.
As Mark notes, we have turned up many, many topics that are worthy of further discussion. I’m sure they’ll turn up again.
There are many experiments that have been run (they’re called history) that give us some insight into how democracy might be spread. We’ve focused on Iraq in this debate, but I’d like to survey, very quickly, some of the other possibilities with hints at their historical precedents.
Containment worked, a là Kennan’s long telegram, to turn the Soviet Union around. It took 75 years, but Russia, the Soviet republics, and the satellites are all on the road to democracy. They could slip back, and that’s where outside influence comes in.
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