"The most worrying thing is that the principal outcome of a strategy, which was clearly formulated by Bin Laden, has led western democratic governments to cut back on free expression and citizens' rights," said Saul. "Our own democratically elected governments have set about undermining the role of citizenship and the complexity of democracy.
Who is more duplicitous, more inclined to deceive his own people as well as other nations for strategic advantage — current and past dictators such as Moammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak and Saddam Hussein, or democratically elected Western leaders such as, say, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Barack Obama?
Yes, that's right: modern, secular, western-oriented Turkey, with its democratically elected government, has locked away more members of the press than China and Iran combined.
Over the summer, while Washington was preoccupied with the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. and European diplomats quietly leaned on the democratically elected, pro-Western Ukrainian government of Petro Poroshenko.
Today in the Arab world, the choice is clear between democratically elected Islamists and Western-leaning dictators".
In its eight-decade history, the Tehran Symphony Orchestra has ridden out some turbulent events: a western-engineered coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister in the 1950s, the Islamic revolution, and war with Iraq.
They were advertised as a response to Western plans to topple Assad's "democratically-elected" government, and even weather reports mentioned "best conditions for bombing".
But in many cases these programmes were actively dismantled by western intervention, often with coups that deposed democratically elected leaders to install dictators friendlier to foreign corporations.
In no democratically accredited society in the Western world have opera buffo ejaculations ever advanced the cause of art-historical scholarship". But James wrote a review of the show considerably more balanced and appreciative than his colleague's.
The Democratic agenda is more democratically focussed on legislation".
