interests of that doing that but let's leave that question aside and let's assume the way that john alterman and all of the people in this foreign policy community who are our foreign policy experts always assume that the u.s. has the right to do whatever it wants including interfere in other countries and determine how they're governed and that only u.s. interest should be the governing principle not more ality or out there democracy or anything like that even from a perspective of pure self-interest it makes absolutely no sense to continue to suppress democracy because although the fact that we're doing that is generally kept a secret from the american citizenry the domestic propaganda is very effective at suppressing the fact that people in those countries know exactly what the united states is doing they know that the united states is responsible for their dictators for decades they know the united states is even now as it has pretty lip service attempting to prevent democracy there as well and what that does is that it increases levels of anti-americanism even higher than what they alre