>It's all propaganda. However, promoting democracy around the world is the goal of the entire western world, not just the U.S. It does "supposedly" make the world a safer place (debatable after some mideast elections) rather than a world with dictators, despots, and maniacs in control of countries with real weapons and the ability to destroy other nations. The western world doesn't (supposedly) promote democracy around the world for the sole purpose of being in control. Has that goal been hijacked by capitalists goals at times? Of course. However, assuming that if every democracy left every other nation alone would allow every country in the world to be safe and left alone is just plain naive. Sometimes your messages sound more like sour grapes than objective viewpoints. I guess that happens to us all though...

Tracy, the western world promotes Democracy (we are going to leave the discussion if that is a good thing or not for another time, as it will very time consuming <g>) when it suits their interests, when it doesn't they do not have any problem promoting Kingships, Dictatorships, etc, and always with an open mind about breaking up of countries.