Well it doesn't really.
That's a great reason to say no to the war!
Compared to no WMDs being a better reason for saying no?
She [the United States] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....Of course there's another reason but don't let anything Putin says concern you...and of course the fact that democracy can not be imported, it has to come from within.
I hear the dead in Chicago and Texas can vote - now that is democracy!
Sprite518 said Putin does not understand that we are a Republic and not a Democracy. The Founding Fathers understood the dangers of a Democracy (aka mob rule), and that is why we are a republic.
Then how come Americans can't understand Russia is also republic as well? Which is what Putin is pointing out.
khenrich said: I'm glad the Japanese and Germans don't agree with you. They would still be a menace to the world. I do believe that in both countries, democracy was imported.
You are incorrect - America restored democratic and republican institutions to Japan and Germany. Germany and Japan were both constitutional republican monarchies (Germany later just a republic) before they fell to dictatorship in the 30s.