That’s an interesting article and it’s always good to hear the news from people who are actually there seeing firsthand what’s going on. But it’s scary to me to hear everyone throw the word “democracy” around like it’s some kind of magic incantation that can turn a war-torn country into a paradise overnight. A little civics lesson — we Americans don’t live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic.
This article gives a pretty good overview of our founding fathers’ opinion of democracies.