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Well, Iran is dominated by the unelected mullahs who do the selecting. Remove them, and you get a democracy.

Hamas achieved popularity in Palestine much as Chairman Mao's army achieved popularity in China. Thus, however we might have trouble defining what it is, we can be confident of what it would become if it remained under Hamas.

And, of course, since the Tibetans have their own written language, and are not guilty of aggression, preventing that is quite legitimate. Since China has threatened democratic Taiwan with military aggression, it is not morally wrong to say to mainland China that it cannot have Uighuristan's oil and Tibet's minerals within its borders. Chinese rule brought to those places the horrors of the Cultural Revolution, which the people there did not want. That, not any historical treaties dating back to Genghis Khan, decides the question of independence.

China is guilty in Uighuristan, as Russia is guilty in Chechnya, of any spread in the popularity of Islamic radicalism.

The objection to George Bush ruling the nations of the world "with a rod of iron" might come from U.S. trade or copyright policies, not from what is a fundamentally sound recognition of which nations are not democracies.

Even Venezuela happens to lack a secret ballot, and people voting against Chavez are threatened.

Anyways, if it takes 2,000 years for Tibet to gain independence, deporting the descendants of the illegal immigrants there should be regarded as perfectly legitimate; the U.S. should not have pressured the Baltic nations not to deport people who entered there or whose ancestors entered there without the permission of the last lawful governments before the Russian conquest.

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