The Differences Between Dictatorship And Tyranny-Part Three

Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Hosni Mubarak. What did these three have in common? They were secular dictators who used brute force to quell violent upheavals (especially against minorities), to provide stability, to promote economic well-being, and to minimize corruption. They knew how to keep their societies functional.

Were these three people good people? Hardly not. It is suffice to state, based on how they treated political dissidents, that they were "snakes". However, as the "head snake", they knew how to keep all the other "snakes" in the proper pit. Once they were all overthrown, all the "snakes" suppressed by them went in every possible direction. The nations they once ruled totally destabilized and anarcho-tyranny resulted. Law and order totally disintegrated and public safety became a thing of the past.

No one is saying that Iraq, Libya, and Egypt should have remained dictatorships forever. However, putting Western-style democracy in its place made matters many times worse for those nations and its people. Millions of people were killed, wounded, and displaced when "Ballots Through Bullets" scheme was imposed on those Middle Eastern societies. The economies of those nations were totally annihilated and as a consequence, huge humanitarian crises happened. 

Syria too is a secular dictatorship that has yet to be overthrown. Their leader, Bashir Al-Assad, is in the same situation that the overthrown dictators once were. It is obvious that the proper Representative Democracy should have been phased in those nations so that the proper Representative Republic would have been established. It has to be tailor-made to each specific nation.

The best thing America, European nations, and other nations could have done and can still do to bring about this is to freely engage with those Middle Eastern nations. However, those nations must be actively and aggressively monitored for their human rights activities by the USA and other nations. Any and all human rights' violations must be publicized to the world community. 

Read my next post to read about the final example of how dictatorship can be used to right the ills that a flawed democracy causes.