Carolc, do you believe the US may have been behind the Aquino revolution in the Phillippines, not bloody likely, considering how cozy Reagan was with Marcos.

No, I wasn't specifically suggesting that the US had anything to do with this one.

When the communist regimes fell in Eastern Europe, the US inteligence community was caught by surprise, its still widely regarded as a major inteligence failure, just like 911. So they didnt have much to do with it

I wouldn't bet on that one. And I wouldn't necessarily call what the former Soviet Union has now as "democracy". I tend to think that had the US not interfered as much as it did in the politics of that region, Gorbachev might have been able to usher in a true democracy in what is now the former Soviet Union, rather than the cronyistic cleptocracy that they have now, with organized crime running the show.

what might come as a surprise to most Americans, the US is not needed to spread democracy.

The US government is not in any way attempting to spread democracy. All they really want is compliant puppet regimes and client states that will secure the oil and give them unfettered access to their natural resources, permission to build military bases, and a balance of power that keeps the US in a position of global supremacy.