Cynic,
Transferring from TCG thread.
My memory for many things surprises me.
Wish it was the right things.
But it the ME is a sad place to be at the moment.
In the 90s I was going to drive the tank there, but Bush put and end to it as I was driving an American model.
Thought of driving down into Morocco before this Xmas, but think it wiser to observe from a distance.
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As you are a "democrat" have a listen to :-
My time span coped with it so you should be OK.
I thought a very interesting perusal relevant to the ME at this point in time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037vb15Democracy, freedom and human rights do not necessarily coincide.
Of the People, By the People 1/4
Duration: 10 minutes
First broadcast: Friday 09 August 2013
Roger Scruton argues that democracy alone is not enough for political freedom.
"In the underground universities of communist Europe ... my friends and colleagues prepared themselves for the hoped for day when the Communist Party, having starved itself of all rational input, would finally give up the ghost," he says. "And the lessons that they learned... SHOW MORE
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