Ends Can Justify the Means

Interestingly enough, there has been many thoughts and writings about democracies needing to be created peacefully from within. A form of peaceful revolution, where men and women revolt against their government through slipping a piece of paper into the ballot box. however, that is not always the case!

I was listening to the BBC on my XM Radio and they were discussing about the government of Mauritania. Now, there was a military coup that ousted the corrupt government and then began forcing democracy. On the Freedom House rankings, Mauritania is listed as partly free. Turkey is another example that an iron fisted ruler modernized the nation, effectively bringing secularism to the former Ottoman Empire.

The point I wish to make is the fact that nations sometimes need to be crushed in orde4r to have democracy reign. Post-WWII Germany was more susceptible to democracy because the Allies beat it into submission, similar to Japan. Sometimes, in the geopolitical world of Realpolitik, the ends justify the means.