Re: I'm tired of that stupid title.
And, as I've said...
You can go from polar opposites in today's world economically and political - it's hard, but it has been done in the modern world. If you taught their children of today to run a democracy, they'd grow up knowing how to run a democracy. A U.S. hating democracy, but a democracy, with freedom to make their own choices.
As for using the vote to overthrow government, that's unlikely. There is between 20-40% that were afraid of being democratic, the Sunni Muslims. Now, the Sunni Muslims are far outnumbered in Iraq, and they live mainly in two cities with high terrorist concentration. They were actually at first being threatened if they voted. They also had much more power. The Shi'ite had much less power, but higher numbers.
In more recent elections, far more Sunni and Shi'ite were participating.
Terrorists over there don't want democracy. They fear it for it's probable popularity with the general public, not because it is bad for the country. Some of these, probably most, are Sunni Muslims who fear being conquered through this method, however, that is where representatives come in and all that good stuff.
I believe it's fourth and eighth grade education that teaches us the most of how our government is run? Taught both times fully? My point here is an un-retarded group of people can learn to run a democratic government, fairly easily... Even as easy as a year. If the U.S. worked as ideal as I wished it, they would teach how democracies and representatives for minorities work, and gradually pull out when it really started taking hold with the public. After that they would, if things were my way, leave, with the exception of making sure that there is no intense law-breaking so that they don't end up with things like the Taliban. Once democracy took serious hold, and with help working against crime, the public, even though they hate the U.S. would be very likely to embrace democracy because of the freedoms it provides. Once the public took to that and began forming their own serious law-enforcement tied by government, etc., etc... Once things got organized? That and popularity for the system would make it hard for terrorism to bring them back down. But it is possible to get them trained for such things, and while the U.S. wouldn't be so generous as to leave afterwards, they'd be well on their way to it becoming too stable for it to be taken over again by another Saddam Hussein or for some Taliban to form there instead.
But you don't need to go from Dicatorship to Monarchy to Democracy, that idea's ridiculous. Democracy is not only completely unlike the other two (the other two are ruled by one person, the difference only being how much, while democracy is technically a rule by the public, a completely opposite thing from both Monarchy and Dictatorship). These developing countries need our help because we jacked them up in the first place, and because without education non of these governments work well long-term for their general public. Their living conditions under these governments are horrid, and they have right to hate us but we have obligation to help by being the cause of their previous demises.