Democracy is a bit like love: messy, chaotic and pretty damn great

Two recent dialogues (debates?) on the the tensions between liberalism and democracy, Islam, and U.S. foreign policy.

For lack of a better way to put it, democracy is one of those things (rare or quite common, depending on your perspective) that happens to be both a problem and a solution. Or: it’s a solution to a particular set of problems, but in coming to be, it creates a whole other set of problems. I’d argue that these new “problems” are much preferable to the old…