Marcel, dont you agree that progress is being made in the countries I listed earlier? I think it's remarkable what is happening. I remember Bill Clinton being touted for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Northern Ireland. His achievements are dwarfed by GWB's.
Bush (and others) has kick-started the movement for democracy all over the Middle East. Obviously abject poverty, homelessness, disease etc. are going to prevail for the forseeable future, but that happens everywhere. All industrialised nations still suffer there problems, but democracy, as Chruchill said, is the least awful way to run a nation.