, Columnist
Democracy-Mongers Should Face Up to an Ugly Reality
The modern world’s most radical idea more often generates chaos, not freedom.
Both products of democracy.
Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Pool via Bloomberg
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We live in an era of political earthquakes; but the Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s defense of her country’s ethnic-cleansers before the International Court of Justice at The Hague last month still came as a shock.
Not so long ago, Suu Kyi was hailed as an icon of democracy in the West. Her apostasy now adds to the growing sense that democracy is in danger worldwide.