How to pronounce "prosperous"

So we need to acknowledge

that despite the dubious statistics, despite the fact that

84 percent of people in Britain feel politics is broken,

despite the fact that when I was in Iraq, we did an opinion poll

in 2003 and asked people what political systems they preferred,

and the answer came back that

seven percent wanted the United States,

five percent wanted France,

three percent wanted Britain,

and nearly 40 percent wanted Dubai, which is, after all,

not a democratic state at all but a relatively prosperous

minor monarchy, democracy is a thing of value

for which we should be fighting. But in order to do so

we need to get away from instrumental arguments.

We need to get away from saying democracy matters

because of the other things it brings.

We need to get away from feeling, in the same way,

human rights matters because of the other things it brings,

or women's rights matters for the other things it brings.

Why should we get away from those arguments?

Because they're very dangerous. If we set about saying,