Thursday, November 6, 2008

Why People Like Islamic Radicals In Algeria

From Strategy Page:

November 4, 2008: Police have shut down, for the moment, the Islamic terrorists, but not the conditions that created them. The government has made no progress in dealing with its corruption and inefficiency. The current president, nearing the end of his second term, wants to change the constitution so that he can keep running for election. The two term restriction was one of the few popular reforms, as it prevented a corrupt politician from becoming a "democratic" president-for-life via rigged elections. The public is responding to this by again backing religious conservatives.

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