>>Democracy is good and dictatorship is bad.
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>>If you disagree, explain why.
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>Democracy is good. Any other form of government seems, to me at least, bad or at least dubious.
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>The question for me is: Is democracy **really** operating in the U.S., Canada, the U.K.? It look like "democracy", but is it really.

Of course.

I don't think any democracy is perfect and ideal.

But is that relevant? You're not going to argue that the imprefections in our democracy are reason enough to condemn the idea that we can promote democracy abroad?



>In all 3 countries I named, the "war on terrorism" took front place in their last elections. There was little about domestic policies or improving peoples' situations other than 'keeping them safe'.

That's far from true. Most analyizers in the US agree that Bush got re-elected in spite of Iraq, not because of it. The campaigns in '04 dealt with domestic plans as much as foreign, from what I recall.