Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
The problem is that we just can't relinquish control. You can't promote democracy as the end all solution to good governance on one hand; and then refuse to recognize the officials that a populace elects simply becuase they hold positions counter to our own. The hipocrisy of such actions harms our national credibility tremendously.
YES you can! Stupid is as Stupid does. The US has a constitution that puts checks and balances on self-determination, and the "power of the people."

The Holocaust was all legal and written into law, by a party that gained power in an election. If that was done by any government today, it would be clearly unacceptable.

The problem with promoting democracy as it is currently done, is that it is done really badly, and in a way bereft of a plan or a strategy.