Democracy, a danger to democracy?

http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/885861-bhl-why-we-were-right-go

This is a very French way of saying, 'I told you so' over the rebel's victory in Libya.

However, he does raise a good point. The public and even Western, democratic heads of state have a remarkable tendency to make excuses for dictators. Rebels always represent an unknown force and therefore prompt a barrage of questions:

'What if they turn out to be Communists/Islamists/Radicals'?
'What if they can't run the country efficiently'?
'What if they don't want to get as friendly with us as the authoritarian despot they replace was'?
'What if they threaten regional stability'?

Basically we need to support democracy whenever and wherever it has a realistic chance of success. Anything else encourages a sort of global 'Athenian' democracy where the privileged can only enjoy freedom because they repress and enslave (or allow the repression and enslavement by others) of those whose freedom is inconvenient. This creates a deeply immoral world order based on the principle that 'might makes right'. We injustly abrogate the right to choose who should be allowed to vote for their leaders and who shouldn't.

This might seem to make the world seem a more stable place from where we are standing. However, it doesn't really give use the moral high ground if in the future someone becomes more powerful than us and decides that our democracy is inconvenient to them. In the long run we are better off championing justice and the possibility of disorder rather than injustice and an illusory stability.