Please shutup about the US bringing democracy to other countries

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The goal of the US has never ever ever been to promote democracy anywhere. Usually, our foreign policy is the exact opposite. Eisenhower overthrew the democratic government in guatemala in the fifties. We supported the shah in Iran. We supported Hussein. There are dozens of cases where the US actively supported anti-democratic governments. There are also lots of cases where the US actively opposed democratic governments, like the sandanistas.

This comment is mainly directed towards well-intentioned, but badly ignorant people, like Iron81, who constantly say things like "well, it'd be nice if we could bring democracy to Iraq, but we can't."