Comment by Joker_vD

> In a perfect world, US and European governments would wake up and realize that arming authoritarianism is really is bad for democracy

Well, they haven't done that since what, the early XX century, what with "he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch"? If the US really cared that much about "democracy", perhaps they'd have by now sorted it out in, say, Mexico already: after all, that's their closest-connected country after Canada, right? Yet the last time I've checked the news about upcoming Mexican elections, there were quite a lot of dead/missing opposition candidates reported (just as it was during the previous elections, and pre-previous, and...) Interestingly enough, the US press doesn't report much on that: apparently things in Afghanistan, across half the globe, are much more important for home security.