I wonder how many readers watched the BBC2 documentary on democracy activists in Azerbaijan last night? The Azerbaijan government has been condemned by a whole host of organisations for undemocratic practices, including ballot rigging and intimidation and violence against the opposition. Last night we saw the police, acting on orders from the government, attack, with brutal force, peaceful protestors who had gathered to protest at the rigged election last November. Yet rather than condemn the brutality and call for fresh elections, the world's sole superpower, (you know, the one we are repeatedly told is passionate about spreading democracy around the globe) instead gives its support to the dictatorial Azerbaijan government.
How could this be so?
It surely can't have anything to do with the fact that Azerbaijan has oil and its government has sent troops to Iraq?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4908406.stm
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This is very hard to follow. This blog has repeatedly condemned US interference in former Soviet satellite states under the guise of spreading democracy. Now when they fail to do it you condemn them too. You can't have it both ways.
With respect, the inconsistency is with those who claim they wish to spread democracy. If the US was seriously concerned with democracy why did they support the government actions in Azerbaijan?
Instead of standing up and denouncing dictatorial practises wherever they occur, the U.S. prefers to undermine countries like today's Belarus and Yugoslavia under Milosevic which are/were democratic and pluralistic.
As I've said all along, what THE NWO desires is not democracy, but compliant regimes that will do its bidding and I've posted on Azerbaijan to highlight this.
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