Western countries began calling for him to introduce democracy and improve human rights.
Simply introducing political democracy is not necessarily the first step that should be taken.
But why should we have thought the Arab world might introduce democracy?
The British established an assembly, introducing democracy to the territory by 1766.
He has done more than anyone would have thought possible to introduce democracy.
It's no small matter, however, to introduce democracy to a country where thieves get their hands cut off.
It then took nine more years to introduce multiparty democracy.
It would not of course be a war to disarm Iraq and introduce democracy there.
In the Islamic cultural sphere, the movement to introduce democracy began much more recently.
However, I believe that this is the only way to introduce greater democracy into such a complex bureaucratic machine.