Yes but...

Submitted by Boris (Australia), Aug 4, 2022 at 12:41

No doubt that secular autocracies are bad. Few people think Saddam Hussein or Hafez Al Asad were good. But my point is that they are bad in very different ways than authentic theocracies like Iran or Qatar.

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