A very thought provoking post! We believe that our system of government is the best. We cannot understand why everyone else wouldn't want to be just like us. Yet they look at us and see that all of our freedoms has made us a morally corrupt nation (their point of view, not mine). They see we have a justice system that often seems not to work too well, a healthcare system that gets less for every dollar spent then almost every other 1st world country, and an education system that graduates illiterates, and a society that seems to produce a whole bunch of crazies that like to shoot up malls and schools. They, for whatever reason, are willing to give up a lot of freedoms to trade for stability. I'm not sure that we aren't moving in the same direction with the 12 year old Patriot Act, NSA eavesdropping, etc. so, to finally answer your question, I don't think we have seen the spread of democracy that was predicted with the "Arab spring". We have just seen one petty tyrant replaced with another.
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