United States government folk don´t seem to know much about
the history of democracy in the West, not even in US, when they
are preaching for "instant democracy" - that describes it well - for
Middle East. Democracy is not a tree that grows in a year or two:
It´s an ongoing struggle, that has no end.

Right to vote for both genders and all ethnic and religious groups
is a very young phenomenon in the West. If one thinks of the great
Western democracies, none had the kind of democracy 80 years ago
that the US wants to transport to the Middle East. Birth of democracy
takes time, it has to get it´s roots deep so that it will not fall when
the first storm comes.

Of course, political democracy can in the end mean little in a world
where the dictatorship of free market economics rules.