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Can anyone guess what country he's talking about? "It is an absolutely failed state — no institutions, no rule of law, no spirit of compromise, no security," said Robert Pastor, director of the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University (The Times).

Actually, this connects with a profound point that alert reader pansypoo makes in comments (paraphrasing): When democracy is sick in this country, we can't expect to make democracy healthy in other countries.