Burma Protests

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

UG, you do realize history is not going to treat your views kindly don't you? I mean the views which express your desire to see your country take over the world and have everyone else love you for it.

I have no desire for my country to take over the world -- I distrust the very idea, however much you might want me to have it to give you a straw man to treat like a Wicker Man. History is littered with the ruins of countries that tried it, and I am not wholly ignorant of history as you know.

What I do demand is that only good government exist. Anywhere. Failed states suffer from too little government, dictatorships from too much, and "that government is best which governs least." Or needs to govern least. Then there's proper room for love.

We've seen what happens with bad governance, and we've seen what happens with good governance. I pick good, and say make the bad extinct, without let, hindrance, or even momentary inefficiency.