The Impossibility of Democracy: the case of Mauritania. I have written an article in Arabic with that title. I will not summarize for you but I will say that in the age of Bush/Clinton U.S. empire it is not possible to have a democracy in the world today as the U.S. will use its military and economic muscles to impose its political and economic interests at the expense of democracy AND social justice. Look at the case of Mauritania. Professional unions came out today in support of the coup by the military dictators, and some members of the "freely elected" parliament have supported the coup. What world. Related to all this is the disappearance of U.S. and European calls for the restoration of democratic rule. The military dictators of Mauritania are the kind of people that the U.S. can "do business" with, to quote Thatcher.