charlesesl

My impression of the American belief after the attack on Pear Harbor is that all ideologies other than democracy is undemocratic therefore automatically evil. This is a belief that has always confused me. I mean, Hitler were invading Europe and Japanese where invading Asia. So America helped put a stop to them. There is nothing wrong with that. But after WWII, why must America fight every country that isn’t adopting democracy. Ancient civilizations existed for hundreds to thousandths of years with totalitarian government and some countries are still doing fine with them today. What's it to the Americans to see every other nation of Earth adapt the same government system as them. Democracy sounds all good and it works pretty well for most western countries. But countries the rest of the world clearly isn’t benefiting much from it. India's previously elected president had to forfeit for personal safety. Their new government consists of a coalition of 20+ parties. I mean how would you even come to a consensus between 20 something parties. The Taiwanese election was a joke. Everybody makes personal attacks on everybody else. The Africans have a civil war every time they elect a new president. So what is the point of switching leaders if you can do better without? Middle East did pretty well with Jamahiriya and Monarchy until US started to take an interest in spreading Democracy. Korea and Vietnam were doing pretty well with their communist revolutions until America come along under the banner of saving freedom and democracy. The Vietnamese managed to finish the revolution but the Koreans were divided for more than 50 years. So I guess what I am asking is is democracy so good that America and the rest of the western world need to spread it at all cost?

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