Commenting on the New York Times criticizing Poutine, for his lack of democraqcy, in “On TV, Putin Is Dismissive of Critics Far and Near” (December 15, 2011), I would like the New York Times to tell us where, in the world, there is a real democracy.
The Western countries, which boast to be the most democratic are governed by the rich, the corporations and the lobbies, the strongest being one foreign lobby (guess which country). Israel is an apartheid country. Israel and the West are criticizing the democracy of the governments they don’t like and are friendly and even allied with the most undemocratic theocracies of the world.
They are even supporting the most extreme Islamic seditions that are replacing governments, for the supposed reasons of “more freedoms and human rights”, with extremely autocratic, chaotic and theocratic ones, allied with the oil theocratic dictatorships so dear to the West.
Roger AKL

PS: Roger AKL is a former Lebanese navy officer, former Assistant armed Forces Attaché at the Lebanese Embassy in Washington D.C., former Second in Command of the Lebanese Navy (1981- 1984) and former head of the Lebanese liaison bureau with the American forces in Lebanon (1983-1984), former chairman, CEO and director of the board of companies in the INTRA Investment group (1984-1990). Currently he is a writer in Middle Eastern affairs.