Critique of US Democracy Promotion
One thing you've been critical of the United States of in the past has been its,
um, efforts to spread democracy around the
world.
What, what do you object to in the, in the, in that push?
No, I don't, I don't think it's doable.
I'm a social Darwinist.
I mean-
Survival of the fittest.
No. The survival
requires you to change.
If you don't change,
then you're marginalized, and you will
become extinct.
It's-
But you look at the way in which, uh, the United States has been trying
to push democracy, uh, around the world-
Yes
... and you say-
Where have you succeeded?
You went to Haiti in nation building,
and I've just...
Well, I was just listening to, uh,
the BBC on Haiti un- recently. I mean,
it, it's just undoable
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