On Jul 6, 6:23 pm, nkdatta2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> http://www.newagebd.com/2008/jul/07/oped.html
>
> New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh
> Monday, July 7, 2008
>
> 'National Security Council cannot be good for democracy'
>
> Dr Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, the distinguished Pakistani academic and
> author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, talks to
> Syeed Ahamed and Faisal Gazi of the Drishtipat Writers' Collective
Does anyone seriously believe that these Islamic countries
(like Bang and Pak) function as democracies? Both countries
are teetering on the brink of food shortages and famine. Once
that happens any democracy will become a sham in which the
rich will extort their advantage. Democracies function only when
the citizens, all of them, are above the basic necessities level.
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