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asahi.com : kenzabue oe and edward said On New Year's Day, I participated as a commentator in Tokyo in a debate on satellite television by some youths in America and their counterparts in Islamic countries.
One of the students in New York eloquently advocated the role of world police by ``the most powerful and richest democratic country.''
His point was that all the problems would be solved if ``we'' taught democracy to ``those'' who are less advanced.
(ed. we all heard about this debate of course and high school kids across the good ol USA were tuning in en masse to get their budding consciousnesses expanded by debate in the real world about this most crucial of matters.)