CriticalThinker02
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Iran was a democratic country in the early 1950s that was overthrown by the CIA in-favor of a military dictator Shah, 3 decades later the Iranian revolution happened, every dictator that ruled in the ME within the past 70 years was put there by the west, so Im not buying your analysis of the west being the promoters of democracy, they have always sought after their own personal interests and if the rest of the world is screwed over than so be it.Problem is, in reality, no good replacement for authoritarian governments has been found for large Muslim nations. Prior to Iraq war, there was a lot of afterglow from the end of Cold War and dissolution of USSR that somehow democracy has trumped over totalitarianism and the world will see the obvious truth and freedom will ring true everywhere. Iraq (and Afghanistan later) put paid to that theory and now there is greater realism that democracy is not really an exportable system and certain cultures do best under authoritarian regimes. The success of PRC in recent times goes to reinforce the shallowness of the argument that the consent of the governed is paramount. Also, the color revolutions in the Middle east that brought chaos confirmed the error of constantly promoting democracy over stability. Now you no longer hear 'spreading democracy abroad' as a goal of foreign policy.
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