When the Democratic Republic of Congo held its first multiparty general election for 41 years in 2006, the event was hailed as a milestone on the slow march out of civil war and towards functionality for the world's largest failed state. Five years later, as the country holds another poll, the naivete of the Western [...](http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&blog=19871253&post=12766&subd=timeglobalspin&ref=&feed=1)
Attribution: MSNBC, Time & Topix.