If we run a bit scared of letting some of these processes go, even with failings—that is, the process of democracy—we're not going to get to first base in any of these countries. We're going continue to see them degenerate.
Faced with this challenge, this election—and we've seen it in other places—the more that the international community engages directly, and harangues, and gets involved, and visits, and commits itself to wanting to see an election, the more it will happen. There is an impact on the violence side with all those witnesses around. Pouring in witnesses, pouring in efforts to do it, but deliberately, and not simply verbal, will give you a better chance than saying, “Gee, you know, we don't think it will work, and we'll let it ride.”
That is exactly what the opposition wants. I lived it in Rwanda. Everybody stayed away, and the whole place went up in smoke because nobody came and nobody really cared.