<We still have bases in Germany and Japan, so I guess they are not free either?>
Those elections were partly free, in the years after WWII, and became more free in later years. In the elections we supervised, we allowed anyone except fascists to run, and anyone except fascists and communists to win. In Germany and Japan, it's unlikely those parties would have won, even without our supervision.
However, in other cases, the result was clearly un-democratic. If you define "democratic" as "the will of the people". After WWII, local Communist parties in Greece, Italy, and France, and possibly elsewhere, might have won elections, if not for the U.S. Army. Those Communists had been the main local forces fighting the German occupation (and local Quislings), so they had a lot of popular support. We made sure they didn't win.
<We even have some in the UK>
Unlike the Iraqis and Afghans, they invited us in. And, unlike the Emir of Kuwait, Churchill was elected. |
