Dude -- As a nation, we've pissed away thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in the last 25 years just to protect radical Islamic royal families in places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Part of this involved toppling a Ba'athist regime in Iraq and replacing it with a new "democratic" government which immediately adopted a new constitution
in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion.
And the author of this article actually believes that the U.S. has any interest in promoting "freedom" and "democracy" around the world? LMAO.