Do you think spreading Democracy around the world is a good thing?

Question

Do you think freedom and liberty is something everyone should have or just America and Europe? And if so or not, why?

Answer 1

Give me one example of two democracies that have gone to war against one another.

You can't.

This is the main reason why it is vital that democracy spread throughout the world. It makes warfare very unlikely.

The fact that you are unlucky enough to have been born a woman in Afghanistan should not mean that you are doomed to spend your whole life in absolute subservience, denied education and an opportunity to make your own life decisions.

A couple years ago I was taking a half day cruise in Turkey. Everyone was on the upper deck getting some sun, chatting, looking at the scenery, and diving into the water whenever we dropped anchor....... except for the one Muslim woman. She had to sit in the lower deck, with her head covered. She never got to experience the thrill of diving into the ocean, or scaling a rock wall, or exploring a cave.

Democracy is not neat and tidy. It is millions of voices clamoring to be heard, but out of this din you get the most equitable society mankind has ever created.

Answer 2

When did America start "spreading democracy around the world" ?

Afghanistan was invaded in revenge for the September 11th terrorist attacks - and it's just as much a despotic theocratic dictatorship as it was pre-invasion. The only difference is the drug dealing warlords who used to support the Taliban now support the US puppet government in Kabul!

And Iraq was invaded because it sits atop the second largest oil field on the face of the earth! The Iraq war was all about putting Iraqi oil in the hands of big American and British oil companies (specifically Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP AMOCO and Royal Dutch Shell) - "democracy" didn't have a damned thing to do with it, since the US installed puppet government in the Green Zone is far from democratic!

Answer 3

Not as long as Freedom and Democracy is synonymous with Americanization. Different cultures have thrived on Earth for millennia. It is a shame to destroy them because of the greed of a very narrow segment of human society. Remember, the mighty Roman Empire eventually faded into the darkness of the Middle Ages.

Answer 4

not everyone wants it. In Venezuela they elected a socialist who is working to make everything that way. Many other countries work well with Theocracy. Freedom in this country is imaginary... watch Fox/CBS/NBC etc for information and you will find the Constitution betrayed, no free press = fascism; elections are rigged (Gore should have been president) so... to use some common spin thats around right now...
"They hate us because we are free"
"We are giving them the gift of Democracy"

Will they hate us less if we give them the gift that they hate us for??

Answer 5

hehehehehe demomcracy??

there are 2 types democracy
1) democracy
2) demarcacy

yes, i belive democracy works.. but what we see in other parts is demarcacy.. demarcacy is the ugly form of democracy...if you look closely then still at europe and american, we don't have any absolute democracy...
democracy is just a social system so is the so-called communism... now.. liberty and freedom hmmmmmm
" Man is born free but everywhere he is in chians"
freedom and liberty for a common-man is as absurd as the american dream... because life is a "prison".........

take care and later

Answer 6

The question is deeper than you think! ot all peple have any notion of what we mean by "Democracy" or "Freedom". In the middle east, most countries have NEVER had a democratic type of government nor have the had true "freedom". These people may express a desire to choose their own leaders but they want that leader to be more "dictatorial" than "democratic".

It is certainly OK to educate people about democracy but it is absolutely idiotic to try to force democracy onto any country. Therefore, our current methods perpetrated by president Bush is idiotic.

Answer 7

Freedom and liberty are not the same thing as "Democracy". It is very important not to confuse this:

Freedom vs. Unlimited Majority Rule
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
By: Peter Schwartz

America helped empower Hezbollah, by confusing the idea of freedom, which rests on the principle of inalienable individual rights, with the idea of democracy, which rests on the principle of unlimited majority rule...
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12777

Answer 8

Your habit is seditious. You unfold those rumors and count on the undeniable fact that some human beings have lost their backbone in worry they are going to be referred to as names by you or human beings such as you. you turn "no longer taking nuclear reaction off the table" into "threatening to Nuke Iran"? How lots of a lie is that? You fake that Israel, which has threatened no u . s . a . with destruction, is the ethical equivalent of Iran, which publically helps the assumption of wiping Israel off the face of the planet? How biased is that? You confuse having WMDs with using them to break your buddies and voters, as Saddam does, and say we are the undesirable adult men? you have chosen your section. some persons nevertheless have the backbone to call a traitor a traitor. particular, you have loose speech. So can we. marvelous how today the socialists and seditious forget that as they attempt to close down any man or woman who disagrees with them. shop speaking up. you're making the rustic stronger, if in basic terms that we see what we don't desire to grow to be.

Answer 9

Yes having freedom and liberty should be available to everyone if they desire it and are truely free to make the choice on their own without fear of reprisal or death.

Answer 10

There is no problem with spreading Democracy, but the U.S. has to recognize when a country will just not accept it.