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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] What I'm sensing in your complaint about the lack of uniformly free elections throughout Iraq is that the result would be illegitmate, undermining the seed of republicanism we have planted in that country. [URL=http://www.techcentralstation.com/042904B.html]Lee Harris makes a good point on how neither side has characterized the nature of legitimacy correctly.[/URL] An example would be the reconstruction governments in the south after the American Civil War. Though there were federal troops securing the Union-installed officials, the people still held those governments to have enough legitimacy in their own time to govern. As for the UAE, it's a sign of success because another Muslim nation decided to help. No, their contribution pales in comparison to the cost we are footing, but for them I'd bet that's a lot of money to donate, and they're going out on a limb to help us and Iraq rebuild. You point out their money is small potatoes. Yes. But that aid is still a victory. The point of the Nordlinger article was to illustrate why there are [i]no[/i] Republicans who are black, not why they are not represented in that party in perfect symmetry with the population. I think it still counts as a bigger tent than you are giving it credit for when they have (unsuccessfully) tried to elect them. As for the comment about Justice Thomas's clerk, I heard the same from some of the flaming liberal professors at my school too. There're articles on it too that I'm too tired to find now. I'm not saying it's huge, all I'm saying is that it's growing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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