President Clinton ordered troops and civilians to their flaming deaths while being serviced under a desk by Monica Lewinsky. You think that's a moral improvement?
Plural marriage and strong willed first wives predated actual democracy, the actual Achilles' heel of Greece.
Greece united the western world and created a worldwide culture, under Macedonian military leadership, and athenian cultural leadership, for the first time, ever, said which culture persisted longer than the Pax Americana has, so far, and said which culture saw the flowering of unimpeded multi-continental trade routes, and the useful fostering and dissemination of the works of Euclid, Pythagorus, Plato and Archimedes. Nothing to sneeze at.
Their town hall meeting was only an emotion from mob rule.
Constitutional representative republics (without the professional political elite squandering the treasury through vote buying social programs) with three equal branches of federal government recognizing citizens' God-given rights affirmed by our Bill of Rights is our gift to civilization. North America as incubator for self-government is a gift from God.
So? On what balance pan can you demonstrate that the implemented concept of democracy is more or less important than the implemented concept of constitutionally limited representative democracy? You can't have the latter until you've thought of the former, I point out.
The core of islamic nations missed the worst of the Black Plagues.
So?
Pan-Islam is a cancer which may actually loose a plague in their war on America.
Not relevant, but if you want to talk "maybe", america has battle plans in place concerning battlefield nukes--for the first time ever. I'd call that one a push, myself.
By the way, did the islamic world first invent and implement the idea of germ warfare?