of propaganda and the democracy debate

Debates about  American love for, and promotion of, Democracy are drowned out by the sheer  power of it's Propaganda machine. The reality of the "Democracy" they  propagate and enforce through brutal, armed force,  is so plainly visible  it is hard to believe that  people  still fall for the propaganda aboutAmericans bringing Democracy and Freedom  to  people around the world.  

Their partners in crime - the Saudi Monarchy - are, in fact, the promoters of of the most dangerously fundamentalist  of Islamic theologies - Wahhabism.   A scary fundamentalism they fund  and export around the world , using it to actually undercut any true democracy movements in the Islamic world. 

A debate about the real nature of the American/Saudi beast  is sorely needed. 

Another great Greenwald  article  from the Guardian.  

The most significant problem in political discourse is not that people embrace destructive beliefs after issues are rationally debated. It's that the potency of propaganda, by design, often precludes such debates from taking place. 

In other words, the single most repressive regime in that region is also America's closest ally. Eakin also notes that while Saudi leaders have exploited the rhetoric of the Arab Spring to undermine leaders its dislikes (primarily in Syria and Iran), its only direct action was to send its troops into Bahrain "to stave off a popular revolt and prop up the Bahraini monarchy" and use "its influence in the Gulf Cooperation Council, the alliance of autocratic Persian Gulf states, to pull together support for the beleaguered royal houses of Morocco and Jordan." About all of this Saudi bolstering of tyranny, Eakin says: "The White House has remained silent."

There is, of course, a long-standing debate about whether there's anything wrong with the US supporting and allying itself with repressive regimes. A popular strain of foreign policy thought has long held that the US should be guided primarily by self-interest rather than human rights concerns: hence, since the US wants its Fifth Fleet to remain in Bahrain and believes (with good reason) that these dictators will serve US interests far better than if popular will in these countries prevails, it is right to prop up these autocrats.

That's all well and good, but then there should be nobody willing to believe US political leaders when they claim that they are engaging in military action or otherwise interfering in other parts of the world in order to subvert despotism and spread democracy

The US is not committed to spreading democracy and freedom in the world. "Freedom" and "democracy" are concepts it exploits to undermine regimes that refuse to serve its interests. Indeed, there is virtually an inverse relationship between how democratic a country is in the Muslim world and how closely allied the US is to it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/12/us-saudi-arabia-libya-freedom?INTCMP=SRCH