Originally Posted by samcol

It's too bad people continute to pretend that democracy is the end all solution to rouge nations. The US's founding fathers recognized the problems with democracy and set up a constitutional republic utilizing few aspects of democracy. The key difference is that in a democracy, the government exists to do the will of the people, in a constitutional republic the government exists to protect the rights of people. Unfortunetly, this system has deteriorated over the years.

I'd rather have a government that protects the rights of people, instead of a government that can be elected to do the will of the mob whether it be good or bad (terrorism in the case of Hamas). So what if the majority of the people are behind Hamas in this election, that doesn't give them the authority to commit terrorism.