Some world history:
"The efficiency [effective state organization] of World War I inspired Mussolini. He gave up on socialism and developed a new political theory that rejected the equality that defined democracy. He came to believe that a few leaders must take a nation toward progress by directing the actions of the rest. These men must organize the people as they had been organized during wartime, ruthlessly suppressing all opposition and directing the economy so that businessmen and politicians worked together. And, logically, that select group of leaders would elevate a single man, who would become an all-powerful dictator. To weld their followers into an efficient machine, they demonized opponents into an “other” that their followers could hate.
Italy adopted fascism, and Mussolini inspired others, notably Germany's Hitler. Those leaders came to believe that their system was the ideology of the future, and they set out to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way."
Letters from an American Historian
P.S. If the rebels taking over Syria are hostile to Russia and Iran for backing Assad where will the new Syria be on Gaza and Israel? Will this inflame more violent unrest in the middle east or serve as a crack in a doorway to more peace and stability?
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