{"id":1465,"date":"2007-08-22T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/08\/22\/democracies-do-not-always-make-societies-more-civil\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:59:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T01:59:25","slug":"democracies-do-not-always-make-societies-more-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/08\/22\/democracies-do-not-always-make-societies-more-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracies Do Not Always Make Societies More Civil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Democracies do not always make societies more civil &#8212; but they do always mercilessly expose the health of the societies in which they operate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Robert Kaplan, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/037570759X?tag=probefhos-20&#038;camp=14573&#038;creative=327641&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=037570759X&#038;adid=130B5ECTPRAGBBD64KQN&#038;\">The Coming Anarchy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/08\/22\/democracies-do-not-always-make-societies-more-civil\/iraqibombin21jpg\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1117' title='baghdad bombing'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/iraqibombin21.jpg' alt='baghdad bombing' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An Iraqi child hides behind a soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/alec\/05\/29\/happy-memorial-day\/\">during a bombing in Baghdad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/08\/22\/the-democratic-republic-of-congos-untold-war\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/photoessays\/congo\/wire.jpg\" alt=\"congolese war rages\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/photoessays\/congo\/dead.jpg\" alt=\"death in the congo civil war\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Civil War in Congo continues to rage despite elections since 2003.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/06\/22\/civilian-death-statistics-in-iraq-afghanistan-compared\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/chart1.jpg\" alt=\"statistics of iraqi civilian deaths\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every 9.62 days, there is an equivalent amount of casualties in Iraq &#038; Afghanistan as September 11th.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/06\/05\/40-years-of-the-sweetest-military-occupation-in-the-world\/slide18jpg\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1153' title='slide18.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/slide18.jpg' alt='slide18.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/word-of-the-day\/06\/05\/40-years-of-the-sweetest-military-occupation-in-the-world\/021215_nablus_schoolgirljpg\/' rel='attachment wp-att-1149' title='021215_nablus_schoolgirl.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/021215_nablus_schoolgirl.jpg' alt='021215_nablus_schoolgirl.jpg' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Pictures of the Israeli military Occupation in the Palestinian territories<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0007R4T3U&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1851684670&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0002VGR0E&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/government_employee\/06\/03\/disproportional-representation-with-graphs\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/zz4aa3e2cc.jpg\" alt=\"african americans in congress\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/zz3490fe30.jpg\" alt=\"latin americans in congress\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Underrepresentation of Minorities in the US Government<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/peacecorpsonline.org\/messages\/imagefolder\/abughraib.jpg\" alt=\"abu ghraib prison abuse\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jburroughs.org\/history\/causes\/life2.gif\" alt=\"Rwandan Genocide\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jburroughs.org\/history\/causes\/time_copy.gif\" alt=\"rwandan genocide\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan Genocide, after multi-party parliamentary elections, Hutu extremists murdered almost a million Tutsi&#8217;s with machetes and small arms as the international community looked on.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=037570759X&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0312424930&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=probefhos-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1400034574&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracies do not always make societies more civil &#8212; 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