[admax88q]

> I'd say that people should be allowed to manage their own affairs.

> If a country is better off with a dictator, then so be it.

Those do not mesh. Democracy _is_ allowing people to manage their own affairs.

[puranjay]

Not when that democracy is imposed by an external force. There is nothing organic about, say, a US-sponsored democracy in Afghanistan or Iraq

[aaaaaaaaaab]

Democracy is indeed.

But when external forces try to impose democracy on a society not ready for it, typically all you get is a civil war netween local mini-dictators. E.g. Lybia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, countless African nations, etc.