Kareem Mayan's Weblog

Siddiqui is one of the best columnists I’ve read on global politics. He also describes something I’ve been saying since I moved to the US in 2001:

The U.S. presidential election may be the most undemocratic in the world. Only some 126 million vote, yet the result is felt by 6.6 billion people. Indeed, in some ways, it matters even more to non-Americans. The president is constrained domestically by many constitutional checks and balances but this is far less true in foreign affairs.