Mexico is a democracy, and spreading democracy abroad is now the "raison de etre" for our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, as I understand it. Yet one of our closest democratic neighbors is so fluffied up that people abandon it by the millions annually.
We are already trillions in debt, and borrowing billions more to install a type of government in foreign countries that does not always even work. The fact that we cannot even pay our own bills leads me to believe its not really working well in this country, either.