I can't pick up the damn sound feed on that link, and NPR makes you pay for transcripts. Can you boil it down for me, or direct me to something he wrote which deals with the same questions?

Do you have opinions of your own on this? Who do you think would win a free election in Pakistan? And what happens then?

Democratic government is the consequence of a philosophy and a culture, not the driver, and even then pure democracy has to be restrained by basic principles, as with our Constitution. For example, no state could vote slavery back into existence, even if the vote was 90 percent in favor.