Reply #2: democracy as such is not the problem, "exporting" it to create

[kenny blankenship]

what are in fact, dependent weak puppet govt's that's a big problem. First the "export" is not exactly invited nor is it peaceful. Secondly the creation of compliant protectorate "democracies" through mass violence engenders widespread resentment in the victim country and a violent response.
Let's just leave democracy as a concept out of what the Bushlerites are trying to accomplish. When the Anglo (and later Anglo-American) oil interests used to promote and prop up Kings throughout the oil-rich Islamic Crescent, they weren't really creating sovereign states and self-sufficient monarchs, they were creating puppets. The "Kings" depended on foreign troops and foreign intelligence services for protection from their own peoples. We aren't trying to create sovereign states and democracies in this "democratic" age either. The moment any such client government, one of those democracies we like to take credit for, like Lebanon, so much as sniffs in disapproval at some goal or method of US policy that government becomes a target of harsh rhetoric calling the legitimacy of the gov't into question, and perhaps some mass murder & mayhem directed by Washington and a candidate for "regime change"--if not subject to immediate airstrikes and invasion.