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When the Bush administration proclaims the universal superiority of western-style democracy (and western capitalism) and imposes such a dogmatism militantly, we are committing the same err that militant Muslims are committing.
| This is relativism at its worst. As though deliberately targeting innocent civilians to establish control through fear can be equated to liberating an oppressed people so that they can determine their own future through a democratic process.
How shallow the comparison (or how blind the observer) must be to think that the US and radical Islam are even in the same ballpark - morally speaking.
PS
Western style democracy IS superior to rule under Islamic Fundamentalism. |