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I don't think Iraq could be transformed overnight into a democracy. How can you take a country that doesn't have any kind of tradition of democracy, where its people have been brutalized and repressed for decades, and suddenly impose Jeffersonian ideals?

Elaine Sciolino

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Ich glaube nicht, dass der Irak über Nacht in eine Demokratie umgewandelt werden könnte. Wie kann man ein Land ohne demokratische Tradition mitnehmen, in dem die Menschen seit Jahrzehnten brutalisiert und unterdrückt werden und plötzlich Jeffersonsche Ideale durchsetzen?

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