Our government often claims to be promoting democracy abroad, although the policies implemented are often counterproductive to that end. In Iraq, the U.S. invasion and occupation has created a government that doesn't function, and unleashed an insurgency and civil war. Nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers and over a million Iraqis have died.
Democracy activists in Iran have called for an end to U.S. funding of "democracy promotion" there, since such funding facilitates accusations by Iran's government that democracy activists in...
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