The Failure of Democracy

Thought provoking as to why democracies work in one location but not another - the author's premise is the spiritual foundation of a nation makes or breaks how well a country does (though I'd say democracy is not the preferred - rather a constitutional republic).

The failure of democracy in the Middle East
By Rob Slane | August 17, 2013 | De-mock-racy, Politics

With all hell breaking loose in Egypt, here is something I recently wrote for Samaritan Ministries on the subject of democracy – how it is an idol and why it has failed to bring the promised peace and stability to the Middle East:

“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Winston Churchill in a speech to the British Parliament on 11th November 1947.

I’m sure Churchill was right to think that nobody in his day held democracy to be perfect or all wise. In theory many people would still agree today, yet in recent years, the word democracy has – at least in the minds of many – taken on characteristics akin to omniscience and omnipotence and is increasingly being seen as the answer to humanity’s problems.

This can be seen most clearly in the “nation-building” wars of the past decade, which have been waged with the intention of bringing democracy to those nations. Afghanistan was invaded in order that the Taliban might be defeated, and with the hope that some form of democratic system could then be established. The same was largely true of Iraq. Although the pretext for war was the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was said to have possessed, the hope from the outset was that once he was deposed, democracy could then be established and a peaceful and stable country created, which would form a blueprint for the rest of the Middle East to follow.

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