When the world thinks of progress and of world peace, they often think of democracy. However, just as the author has expressed in his essay, I do not believe the democracy is the solution for every nation’s problem. Indeed as we see in the case of many third world states, democracy has failed time and time again.
This does not mean that democracy in itself is a fallen system to govern a nation, but rather it means that there might be a better way to go about governing a nation that is not suited to a democratic system of government. Diverse and upcoming third world nations usually have never been governed by a democracy, and as a result the structure of their society and cultural beliefs do not conform to that ideal.
History has shown us that many of the first world nations have a bad habit of coming into poorer, weaker nations to topple the government and set up a “democracy”. Most of the time, these richer and more powerful nations think they have solved the problem. They set up a new regime, pack up their tanks, and go home. It seems that they never think of what would come after the war ends.
These poorer nations find themselves willing to give “free” and “fair” government, but find themselves unprepared to effectively govern their country in a democratic manner. We can look at the modern examples of a host of third world nations and find the same result. Democracy may not always be the immediate answer to a political problem. We cannot govern a people with a system of government that they are simply not prepared to live under.