I think a lot of people are asking themselves that question, the question of whether we have rushed into the exporting of democracy in a fashion that, in my view, was maybe just a little too focused on the holding of elections. There's a lot more to democracy than a series of periodic elections. There's the building, first of all, of elections that yield parliaments, not just a strong executive and not just a nominal parliament. There's the culture of a loyal opposition: the idea that if you lose, first of all you'll get another chance, and you have to work in the interests of the state even though you don't have to be on the side of the government. The culture of opposition is very absent in a lot of environments in which we rush to elections and then are surprised at the result.
Finally, and having in mind particularly Afghanistan, I would say that we're not going to go very far in promoting democracy, and certainly not by celebrating fraudulent elections. Tolerating would be bad enough, but celebrating, frankly, is a bit rich, and I think we've done too much of that--tolerating for others what we would never accept for ourselves and exporting a really impoverished version of democracy that has been reduced not only to electoral mechanisms, but to second-rate electoral mechanisms at that.