The OIC is an international organization of 57 Islamic countries, most of them barbaric tyrannies.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Without leaders, they argue, a revolution is less likely to mimic its predecessor and adopt its own tyrannies.
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We have, the the last century seen modern, western democracies become tyrannies.
In that speech, Obama will praise the populist movements that have risen up against Arab tyrannies and embrace them as the model for the future.
Islam is not a recipe for good government, she says, noting that all but a handful of Muslim countries are either failed states or tyrannies.
The alternative of allowing these threats further to metastasize is to ensure not only that the tyrannies in Tehran and Pyongyang be more dangerous in the future.
For people like myself, laboring under the twin tyrannies of tradition and socialism when I first read Rand in my native India, this is heady, empowering stuff.
We became a nation that values, even more demands protection of individual rights from tyrannies of statist regimes that would dictate what is right for everyone.
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Chavez was fascinated from the outset by these petro-tyrannies, their tightly controlled populations, and the fact that the world's dependence on oil enabled them "to get away with murder".
Nuclear weapons in the hands of megalomaniacal tyrannies who are animated by this hatred and who are armed with ballistic missiles poses a unique - and intolerable - threat.
It is important to spread the idea that tyrannies will inevitably lead to enslavement of people even if they are now showing some largesse and claim to speak for the poor.
In too many devious tyrannies that hold elections, outside observers arrive as the polling stations open and never see the process of rigging, disqualification or intimidation that has already made a mockery of the voting.
Damascus has many more shared interests, however, with tyrannies and terrorists dedicated to the destruction of America's democratic way of life, which runs counter not only to what those tyrannies and terrorists do, but what they are.
What separates democracies from tyrannies and failed states is that democracies determine power's distribution through deliberation and debate while tyrannies and failed states are governed by the rule of the gun and the laws of the jungle.
Hence, nothing served as a better "role model", in Chavez's own words, than the Arab and Middle Eastern tyrannies whose multi-billion dollar revenue enabled them to create welfare dictatorships on the one hand, and, on the other hand conferred them tremendous international leverage.
"We should be careful in whose hands civil society ends up - eastern Europeans have exchanged the tyrannies of socialism and party apparatuses for the tyrannies of capitalism, political elites, corporate bureaucracies and ethnic majorities determined to stamp out any kind of plural life, " she says.
He also has sponsored legislation to support democratic opponents of the Syrian and Iranian tyrannies because their leaders, the Assad dynasty in Syria and Iran's Ali Khamenei and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, threaten American and Israeli security, and because he wants to support moderate Muslims living under such regimes.
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Yet Dr Mahathir's remarks were not funny, and they were not a compliment, whether to Jewish people, to those he claims they control, or to the soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, not fighting for Israel but, as they thought, to bring down tyrannies in both countries and punish terrorists.
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