Talk:National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I merged this article and the artice NDI, which now redirects to this article. I have done nothing with the actual text, apart from some minor typographical changes. The section "Background" is clearly written by a favourable observer, or perhaps the NDI itself, and I have therefore added an NPOV-check tag. The text should be made to conform with the Wikipedia NPOV-policies. --Thorsen 19:19, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

What do you want it to say? That the NDI is a propaganda arm of the CIA? User:Babykul

[edit] Curious Connections

The current president of the NDI, Kenneth Wollack, used to be the legislative director of the American Israel American Affairs Committee (AIPAC), one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington. AIPAC has the expressed goal of isolating such groups as Hamas and Hezzbolah, groups that run in elctions which the NDI looks to influence and claims not bias in. I have difficulty in believing that the NDI is a group with the sole ideological goal of spreading democracy. Kenneth Wollack himself has made public statements casting doubt on President Hugo Chaves, someone who was fairly elected through a democratic process which the Carter Center obeserved and affirmed as fair (the irony being that Carter was also the one who founded the NDI).

All this to say, it is my opinion that the NDI is not an organization concerned with the expansion of democracy in the world, but are instead interested in using democracy up and to the point that it advances U.S. interests.

  • Which is a critism, and an anonymous one at that. First, Chaves is far from an pure democrat and human rights guardian, just look at what Human Rights Watch, Amnesty Intenational, Reporters without Borders, etc have said about him. The mere fact that he was democratically approved means nothing, in fact one should look back at how Napoleon used a similier method to promote his dictatorship. Secondly your making an assumption that just because he has made critical comments about Chaves, it is impossible for him to head a group to moniter him fairly. Hell, HRW makes critism of Chaves and Hamas all the time; there fore they can't be used as a human rights monitor?
  • Find someone who makes the critism, and post it on the article, this isn't the place for airing your personal views.--Dudeman5685 02:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to second Dudeman's comment. There's a lot of room to improve this article, so go for it. Also, Carter didn't start NDI. It was done under the Reagan administration Waverly57 15:47, 26 July 2007 (UTC)