08 January 2009 (Freedom and democracy)
Americans report on what they saw in Iran: despite condemning their government's policies on some human rights issues (which Iran's limited democracy does not allow them to change), Iranians do not want the US to give them "freedom and democracy".
The government of Iran has a sort of democracy which is very limited it its powers. It has some oppressive policies, which the elected leaders cannot control. However, it is not a dictatorship like Saddam Hussein's regime. Iranians would be justified in rebelling to win real democracy, but mostly they don't seem inclined to go that far.
I said in 2002 that I would support an invasion of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein if (1) that's what Iraqis wanted and (2) we could be confident that the new government would respect freedom and democracy. Of course, neither of these two was the case.
It's the same for Iran.
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