WASHINGTON, D.C.: The world got a close-up look at US democracy during Washington’s debt default showdown, and was traumatized by what it saw.

Foreign commentators branded America “befuddled,” and mocked its “dysfunctional” political system while French newspaper Le Monde bemoaned a “piteous spectacle” over a just avoided US debt default.

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