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There's No Such Thing as a Bad Election

Events in Iran prove that even a little bit of democracy is a powerful thing.

Once upon a time, democracy was a synonym for motherhood and apple pie, a thing of unchallengeable value. More recently, the word has lost its luster. The Bush administration spoke a lot about democracy in principle but found democratic ideas, not to mention democratic institutions, hard to promote in practice. Elections the United States wanted in Palestine led to the victory of Hamas. In Iraq, elections organized with U.S. assistance produced a weak and divided government at a time when strength and unity were required. Meanwhile, authoritarian Russian, Central Asian, and other regimes spent the last decade learning how to manipulate elections, giving themselves bogus legitimacy and producing a new form of "managed democracy": authoritarianism camouflaged in democratic rhetoric.

The result was a backlash—if not exactly against democracy, then against its promotion. In part because they intuitively disdain anything that President George W. Bush admired, in part because they doubt its efficacy, the Obama administration has quite deliberately stayed away from the whole idea of promoting democracy in general and elections in particular. In discussing Afghanistan, they initially spoke about "clear and attainable goals," not democracy. In his Cairo speech, President Barack Obama himself—speaking to an audience that included Egypt's undemocratic leaders—prefaced his short comments on democracy with the enthusiasm-killing phrase, "I know there has been much controversy ..." I am reliably informed that within the White House and State Department, jobs with "democracy promotion" in the title are not eagerly sought after.

(Read the rest of this article at Slate.)

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