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

[Subotan]

I suppose that's where we differ. You think that democracy is prime, but is neccesarily subordinated for US interests. I think that US interests are prime, and democracy is just a happy and occasional bi-product.

Basically yeah, although I would say that it's generally in the US' interest for countries to be democratic, rather than them being mutually exclusive.