I think some people are smoking crack :P because we already are a democracy over here. It is the dictators in the Holy Land that will need to worry about the uprising, not the west.
The West wants a successful and rich middle east since that in turns brings stability, so I don't think for one second that we would want to hold them down and keep them poor - it is their dictator rulers who are doing that for them.
-S
PS. THe bad news is that the west is caught up in the BS that is going on out there.
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