In his 2004 study of US support for democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Thomas Carothers found that: Which is an understatement really, but it's no different than it's policy during the Cold War: 'Democracy is fine IF it conforms to US strategic and economic interests, but never substantive democracy, as British scholar Gordon Connell-Smith observes: With the Clinton administration in particular, I just happen to have this handy: Not even mentioning Clinton's death squads in East Timor, military aid to Suharto, shielding and harboring of Haitian death squads, and enforcing Austerity and Mercantilist free trade agreements on Haiti which destroyed what was left of the economy.
