Jim Henley on the problem with democracy. Seriously.
Democracy as a concept is useless if, the second a given populace is given the vote, they use it to strip away the inalienable rights of others. As Jim points out, hawks tend to forget to point this out when espousing democracy to the Muslim world; “liberals,” such as they are today, tend to mention it only by way of saying things like “fuck you, Shrub, when the Iraqis elect ayatollahs you’ll steal their election too, and where’s freedom then? BUSH LIED!”
Tyranny of the majority is not democracy.