“The US is the only major power that has a legitimate claim to be democratic, and also an open society ”
Bobby, this is childish, you only make people laugh at you.

“It has not handled the situation in Iraq well, but it ousted a horrible dictator. ”
but, another but, at the expenses of Iraqis. So the US has democratically decided that the cost of lives of hundreds of thousands people in a place thousands of miles away were worthwile for the the holy cause. Great democracy! Bobby, could we democratically decide that the US should be bombed to rubble next week, because we think you holy president is a tyrant?

“China occupies other countries and holds one of the region’s earliest democracies hostage. Comparing a US and Chinese build up is ridiculous.”

Bobby, you make yourself a fool, sorry about the comment, but it is true. You need build up some basic knowledge about the rest of this world, like many Americans do.

You make some bold claims without offering much evidence. I’ll grant you that in recent years the US has not looked like the type of democracy that it once was, and again could be. However, making a blanket statement that it is not a democracy at all makes me wonder how you define a democracy. Please explain more fully and give examples to make your point.

1. US is a democracy.

US is only as democratic as a Hollywood production: It’s all fake.

2. Taiwan is a democracy.

Taiwan is a democracy only if you believed that “The Earth is Flat”.

I am tired of US bashing, but again and again Americans proved to be laughably full of themselves.

And the most disappointing aspect of all, for me at least, is that the US could have been a great country.

And give your democratic stump speech to people who have not been stripped of their jobs by the real power in America: corporations and special interests….We lost our claim to true democracy a long time ago…

Maybe you missed the 60 Minutes report on our stellar intelligence on Iraq and the fraud that brought us into that war….That we got a shotgun wielding madman out of power and hung him in a barbaric display of hypocrisy is no great chapter in the war against evil. And it in no way justifies the deaths of tens of thousands in a bogus cause: bombs for oil….I am a proud ex-vet/DAV and I cannot tolerate the lies draped in nationalism the Chinese propaganda masters must envy…

Afghanistan is seeing its worst destabilization since we “liberated” them….The tide is turning against us there and despite the fact that the Russians killed 1,000,000 citizens in their incursion (when we were supporting the Taliban) we have a reputation for being far more reckless and devoid of humanity. My roommate in the military, an Afghani interpreter/interrogator, became a C.O. after seeing how humane our efforts really are….

did you get paid to respond…Ya, America, the bastion of free speech, pays folks to spam blogs in countries that don’t agree with Homeland Security’s agendas….

China occupies other countries and holds one of the region’s earliest democracies hostage. Comparing a US and Chinese build up is ridiculous.