US and democracy in Asia and Africa
A few years back, I read in the newspaper speech of a leader of a radical political party. It said that the day was not far away when they would be reaching the policymaking level at Washington. Today seeing the lack of US support for nascent democracies worldwide, I find that his prediction was correct. In the backdrop of US reluctance to support the democratic struggles in North Africa, smaller powers such as France and UK had to step in. Here in Bangladesh, we see that US policies are only strengthening the hands of the terrorists, war criminals and fundamentalists.
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