A democratic government. I’m talking about a Democratic government deciding to join an alliance with other democratic countries for defense.

Neocons want to proactively and preemptively go into countries like Iraq and Afghanistan to install democracies or friendly governments and try to nation build. I’m not advocating something like DATO do this. DATO sets up a list of democratic standards a country must meet in order to join it via a vote by their citizens. DATO would fight to defend existing democratically aligned nations.