Corporate executives and spokespeople say, if we don't exploit the oil and fund the dictatorship, someone else will. If we don't use child or slave labor, someone else will. If we don't destroy the environment for profit, someone else will. And if we don't brainwash the general public, someone else will. All around the world, the fight to replace dictatorship with democracy is being lost.
Many democratic governments support political dictatorships, including the worst.
This means the dictatorships are not going to be swept away anytime soon. The militaries of democracies regularly support the armies of foreign dictators, both with officer training and weapons supply. One of the most notorious examples of the first, in the U.S., is the School of the Americas, at Fort Benning, Georgia, the graduates of which include the former dictators of Argentina and Panama, and the soldiers who murdered priests in El Salvador. One could go so far as to say that the objective of the military, in many if not all countries, is not to achieve peace but rather to keep the world destabilized. It is a case of selective application of a standard.