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According to the U.S. Department of State, the democratic style of government adopted by the United States in 1776 has six basic characteristics:
- established popular sovereignty,
- majority rule,
- individual rights,
- free and open elections,
- citizen involvement and
- open compromise.
Defense Department documents revealed that officials had lied about decisions concerning the war.
With The Soviet Unions collapse, The US's main enemy that it had been opposed to for years was no longer occupying its time. Very quickly, the US turned its focus towards the many terrorist factions in the middle east, some of which it had facilitated. This lead to things like 9/11 and the Iraq war. Additionally, all the territory that had been previously been controlled by the Soviet Union near the middle East (Kazakhstan) were released and left to their own devices.