'The Soviet Union supports democracy by staying out of countries and thus permitting democracy to succeed.
However we do it, we should never again permit democracy to be reduced to so narrow a choice.
Since the failure of the Umbrella Movement, some young "localists" have argued that if China will not permit democracy, the only way to get it for Hong Kong is through greater autonomy, self-determination or even independence.
Under its Basic Law, or mini-constitution, Hong Kong is permitted full democracy as soon as 2008.
Mr. Lee said that he was nonetheless disappointed that Beijing had resorted to such a blunt declaration on Monday that it would not permit greater democracy here.
The Tutsi, who constitute only 15percentt of the population in both countries but control the governments and the armies, will absolutely not permit genuine democracy because the Hutu, with their 85percentnt majorities, would dominate any free and fair elections.
"We are not permitted to be flatterers of democracy," he wrote, "precisely because we are friends and allies of democracy". As a kind of remedy, Strauss was engaged in trying to synthesize the worlds of the ancient and the modern.
All this, naturally, democracy permitting.
Through figures like him, American democracy permits intense passions to be expressed, contained and, perhaps, vented.
If we don't try to provide realistic underpinnings that permit an Iraqi democracy to function in a meaningful way, no government, however constituted, will survive for very long, and we will leave Iraq in a worse mess than before we came.
