Fundamental issue
If this is so, minority beliefs - political, social, religious - are going to be marginalised as never before. This poses a number of questions, for instance, in the forthcoming election in Iraq. What will be Bush’s response if a party representing Muslim fundamentalism (assuming they would be allowed run) wins?
As a democracy, would Washington accept this? The recent past may give us an insight into how Washington would deal with such an eventuality. Who remembers Chile and Salvadore Allende?
