Re: Please shutup about the US bringing democracy to other countries
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In democracy all people should have the equal right to decide how a society is run.
Having said that, it’s funny to see in some cases how the exporters of democracy have reacted when the people that they have liberated start voting “the wrong way”. They occupy a country and give every man a vote. Now if that vote indicates that the majority indeed wants to live in a communistic/fundamental Islamic/dictatorship, they start saying that the decision is somehow void. Or that it’s against the fundamental values of democracy/human rights etc. and thus has to be disregarded.
Let’s assume that in the next Iraq election a party that wants to turn Iraq into a fundamentalist islamic taleban style state wins 60 % of votes and declares the time of democracy over. I don’t think that the US government would in this case just accept that decision, they would probably rather just keep the nation in the dictatorship of their own armed forces.
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You have done a fine job illustrating the inherent problem with pure democracy.
It's also a good example of why a strong Constitution is needed in any country, in order to protect certain rights. Democracy alone does not protect human rights, civil rights or freedoms.
The Neo-Cons should not have tried to install democracy in Iraq (because it will fail). Nor should the Neo-Cons have called what they wished to install, "democracy".
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