Ted Koppel: Scrap the Notion of Arab ‘Democracy,’ It’s Not Happening Any Time Soon
Former ABC anchor Ted Koppel raised eyebrows when The Washington Post's Sunday Outlook suggested getting rid of things in a “spring cleaning,” and Koppel said “Democracy.” (Or “Democracy,” in quotation marks, as if that's less shocking.) Koppel began: “Democracy.” Let's dump it; toss it on the scrap heap of history. The concept remains worthy, but the word is rapidly being exhausted of all residual value.
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on May 15, 2011. Filed under