Right to Democracy or Extremist hipocrisy?

Question

Is it right for us to go around the world forcing Democratic systems of governments on nations when clearly they are not even close to being perfect yet?

Isn't the the democratic system really useless anyway I mean we only really vote between the lesser of two evils in most cases?

Aren't we preventing possible political advancement by culling other nations political development before it evolves.

Maybe Iraq may have evolved a system of perfect political government if left to naturally evolve. Afteralll it is pretty much accepted that Civilisation began in that area of the world, who are America and their infantile civilisation to tell them how to run a country?

Answer 1

Basically it boils down to our desire to control access to oil and maintain some level of control in the middle east.

In the past, we did this by supporting dictatorships, like our friends in Saudi Arabia and, in the 1980s, Saddam Hussein. We support them in return for access to oil and relative calm in the region.

The problem is that years of manipulating middle east politics, helping keep dictators in power and fueling wars between mid-east countries has made some people a little upset with us and now they want to fly planes into our office buildings and do nasty things to us.

So now the plan is instead of supporting dictatorships, we're going wave our magic wand and turn Iraq into a democracy so they will buy iPods and coca cola and be "just like us" and then they will love us and it will spread throughout the middle east and they will all forget they hate us and they will all want to download episodes of Lost to their new iPods and give us access to all the oil we want forever and ever. Amen.

We'll see.

Answer 2

Sounds crystal clear to me--our corporate led warmongering efforts aren't helping anyone.

Answer 3

The US is being seen as "the bully" who forces other countries to adapt to our ways...........that's why people from other countries hate us.