In the same minute of MSNBC, you could hear about how special interests control too much of our politics, but that foreign countries need more democracy. We were attempting to spread democracy to Afghanistan, but Harmid Karzai is incredibly corrupt. The war on terror has all but ended opposition politics in Malaysia ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpYZ4IGenY watch this and try to figure out how this guy is in the cabinet) . Actually the War on Terror aims to fund the security services of foreign governments to build non-direct diplomatic links to other power structures of a country. Everyone criticizes Hoover, but count the number of former Directors of the FBI and CIA who went on to become President. Alternatively, how many Hoovers are the CIA funding overseas? Why does the New York Times presents a less accurate view of the world than say... Gary Brecher or Zero Hedge? It's very difficult to change parts of the world without replacing their education systems, but we usually go guns ablazing instead. Police stand by while armed bandits in Mexico steal gasoline. What is going on in the world? What is being tolerated? What is being ineffectively fought against? Who is in control? Officially, there is the democratic peace theory, but we are against Iran, a democracy (perhaps its opposition is more regulated than ours, but still a democracy). What is the true reason behind the democratic peace theory? Perhaps when a country is sufficiently owned by international interests, it wouldn't benefit the international interests to have the two countries fight each other. When did democracy first become widespread, and what international interests gained power in that time?