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June 18, 2008

Why Dictatorships Are Bad

I wonder if many exponents of John-Yoo-like ideas of indefinite executive power have read and thought about the implications of Fiasco for their ideas.

Histories of dictatorships and monarchies make depressing reading because

  • Most Kings and Dictators aren't up to the job, And all it takes is one to make alot of people unhappy.
  • Legislatures often bring vital issues forward and can be big helps, like the Truman Hearings on military contracts in WWII.
  • The easier it is to make laws, the worse they are.
  • Worst, the leaders grow more corrupt and more troublesome to their people as time goes on.

    Those points should sound like recent history to you. For example, Bush' absolutism after 9/11 made him unwilling to listen to the experts about interrogation or war, much to our cost in national honor (torture, WMD in Iraq), and in Coalition and especially Iraqi lives.

    Posted by Jon Kay at June 18, 2008 02:01 AM
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