"Turkey's future filled with peril
By R.L. SCHREADLEY
Friday, June 1, 2007
Hence, in all likelihood, tyranny takes its rise from no other form of government than democracy, the most complete and most intolerable despotism following, as I believe, the extremist liberty.
— Plato, The Republic
I've been bemused by commentary about the current situation in Turkey. The consensus seems to be that the overriding interest of the United States is that democracy there, as in Iraq, must prevail regardless of the character of the governments elected."
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