Western foreign policy, when push comes to shove: Democracy sacrificed for Stability?

[al Roumi]

A minority of people believe all sorts of crap! Don't 50% of Americans think 9/11 was a hoax and Obama is a muslim?

Exactly!

It's true - democracies do often have difficult births - and sometimes they produce results that other countries don't like - Gaza for example. But we either believe in democracy or we don't. Once you start cherry-picking, that defeats the whole point.

Indeedy-doody.