Democracy gets oversold a lot as magic pixie dust that when sprinkled on any society results in inevitable progress, which history clearly shows is false. Ther

Democracy gets oversold a lot as magic pixie dust that when sprinkled on any society results in inevitable progress, which history clearly shows is false. There's another problem with Afghanistan and Iraq though, and that's the idiotic idea that a foreign nation that knows little about a culture can "impose" democracy from afar. Just imagine China trying to invade the USA to improve its system of government and you can see how ridiculous this is. I have trouble thinking of any cases in history where this has worked. The closest I can come is post-WWII Marshall Plan reforms in Germany and Japan, and the former had a democratic tradition already before its fascist experiment. Every other case I can think of has failed, usually dramatically and usually leaving something far worse in place than what originally existed.