The United States would have never defeated Hitler or Nazi Germany, if not for the wartime alliance with Stalin’s totalitarian Soviet Union. Throughout history the United States has always partnered with both friendly dictatorships and friendly democracies depending on their interests. But history has also shown that working with a government that has such differing ideological ideas, no matter how peaceful, is not productive. In the long term, it is best that the United States prefer hostile democracies rather than friendly dictatorships. One problem with the Unites States support of friendly dictatorships is that these partnerships tend to backfire or cause more trouble than originally intended. Like previously mentioned the United States
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the United States then ended up fighting a war with Saddam Hussein over his policies when they once sided with him. Another issue such alliances with friendly dictatorships is that they do not work well in the long run. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Arab tyrannies may be long-standing allies of the US, but it was these very countries that help to spawn Al-Qaeda. The United States may have prickly relations with some of the world’s democratic states, most notably in Latin America, but these states do not pose any major security risk. President Daniel Ortega of hostile democracy Nigaragua maybe considered annoying with his support for Russia’s dismemberment of Georgia, but this cannot be compared with the security threat posed by some of our own dictator ‘allies’. Yet Arab democracies do not have to be hostile democracies per say. We would do well to assist the Arab struggle against their oppressive regimes as best we can, so as best to ensure good relations with the Arab leaders who will emerge from this struggle. While many will say the United States should help governments that are friendly, it is the job of a democracy to promote democracies around the world. By supporting other democracies, no matter how hostile, it spreads democracy to other countries with
the United States then ended up fighting a war with Saddam Hussein over his policies when they once sided with him. Another issue such alliances with friendly dictatorships is that they do not work well in the long run. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other Arab tyrannies may be long-standing allies of the US, but it was these very countries that help to spawn Al-Qaeda. The United States may have prickly relations with some of the world’s democratic states, most notably in Latin America, but these states do not pose any major security risk. President Daniel Ortega of hostile democracy Nigaragua maybe considered annoying with his support for Russia’s dismemberment of Georgia, but this cannot be compared with the security threat posed by some of our own dictator ‘allies’. Yet Arab democracies do not have to be hostile democracies per say. We would do well to assist the Arab struggle against their oppressive regimes as best we can, so as best to ensure good relations with the Arab leaders who will emerge from this struggle. While many will say the United States should help governments that are friendly, it is the job of a democracy to promote democracies around the world. By supporting other democracies, no matter how hostile, it spreads democracy to other countries with