Spin: the caliphate was hardly democratic regardless of how you try to dress it up. Can you name a single election during the caliphate era (counting both the Arab and Ottoman empires)?
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LOL...because, once the wall fell, they were pretty much left alone!
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1) The wall fell in 1989. The evolution to democracy was already well underway by then.
2) The US is still involved in Latin America and was involved even before the Cold War.
3) It is another myth that foreign nations are preventing Arabs or Muslims from democratizing. Only in the case of Egypt is this a somewhat valid claim, even though in that case if Mubarak is toppled he would be replaced by an Islamist undemocratic government. The level of aid elsewhere is insignificant or nonexistent. Jordan is the 4th or 5th largest recipient of American aid. What does it get? $400 million a year. One has to be quite naive to believe $400 million is enough to "control" a foreign government. If what you say is true, moreover, where is the democratization in all the Arab countries the US does not care about? There have been pushes for democracy in Muslim countries but this has been conspicuously a non-Arab phenomenon. There clearly is something in Arab culture which makes it hostile ground for democracy.
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Such questions are seldom answered for obvious reasons.
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We've answered it two or three times but HH continues to spam the same invalid post in every thread.