Kevork,
As an 85-year old Latin American, I’ve lived through many dictatorships. I also lived seven years in Switzerland, the most sophisticated dictatorship of them all. I can assure you Democracy does not exist.
Nobody gave the ‘Right’ to governments to kill 37 million people in WWI and another 67 million in WWII.
Nobody ‘gave the Right’ to the governments on Lebanos, Ceylan (Sri Lanka), Angola, Nepal, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Colombia and many other countries to organise civil wars, letting their own people kill each other. Or the right to, in the process, kidnap, assassinate, presidents and/or other government members.
Nobody ‘gave the right’ to the governments of Syria and Iran to play war against each other. Nobody gave the right to Pol Pot to kill aa million of his own people in Cambodia lor to the Nigerian government to organised a Civil war, then blockade Biafra to cause nearly one million innocent people to die.
This is what we can expect from a militarised economy, militarized system. And the authorities in Iran, part of this rotten and immoral system that approves of Militarism, don’t complain. They know very well that it is -n as you most correctly called it – “necessary” or “strategic.”.
As arranged in the Geneva talks, the Iran Armed Forces readied themselves to launch their own missiles into several US military bases in Arabic countries. At several million Euros each, replacing them means good news for the war industry as for the Iranian politicians and diplomats involved in the negotiations.
As we say in English, “business as usual”
Alberto
PS to expect a different world without changing the system is a total oxymoron
