| She believes we are falling for a false kind of moral equivalence between democratic societies and tyrannies. |
| The first was the identification of socialism with the Stalinist tyrannies in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. |
| It has unfailingly produced economic disaster, and in most cases, pretty odious political tyrannies. |
| It would be easy to make glib comparisons with various tyrannies of the past, but I don't think they'd be quite accurate. |
| The tyrannies in these countries are home grown, and they government has supported them, rightly or wrongly, for decades. |
| This, and not the subventions of hegemonic states, is what will ultimately defeat both the secular tyrannies and the religious sectarians. |
