America could be better and it is up to the citizens to make it so. We hear and read about statistics of how many of our fellow citizens have perished defending our freedom. It is just a statistic which sanitizes the true ugliness of each death. All have seen the death in Iran of Neda and one can find easily the entire scenario of first impact to her final breath. Hopefully, this will be the literal straw that breaks the camel's back. However, more than a few revolutions have been followed by a civil war. This may be a very prolonged bloody conflict pulling other radicals to suppress the uprising as has already happened apparently. Unfortunately, our armed services personnel are way too close to the conflict which may be a problem.
Even though we fight and fuss over the political ideologies and perceived injustices one cannot forget what a great constitution we have that has lasted longer than most governments and nations let alone any constitution forged any where in the world. The two most important parts of our constitution that has meaning to what is transpiring in Iran is the right to bare arms, of which in most states the controls IMO have gone way too far, and the abolishment of gruel and unusual punishment. I feel that sometimes we should reflect and state more often what is right with America just as much as we criticize.
Iran has never had anything that resembles a Democracy so how would this society know how to implement such a system. It is apparent the U.S.A. has great influence over the young population as we have a very large American-Iranian population and many have relatives back in Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/806268.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism