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January 16, 2006
Making the World Safe From Democracy
Making the world safe from democracy is a more realistic option than the reverse. President Woodrow Wilson tried this approach back in 1919 and it didn’t work then either. Now the Bush administration is claiming this failed legacy as window dressing to cover up the faulty assumptions behind taking America to war. A recent LA Times op-ed column exposes the failed history of trying to make the world safe by promoting democracy which while 20-20 hindsight, may be useful to future historians assuming that the world doesn’t end in a radioactive cloud or a biological warfare induced epidemic before Bush leaves office. But I digress.
The idea that democratically elected governments are somehow more wholesome, legitimate, and peaceful is hogwash that only a politically blind & historically deaf fool such as George W. Bush would believe. Examples of hostile, totalitarian, and warlike regimes that gained power through the ballot box abound in modern history, but let me name just a few that bedevil the world currently anyhow: Iran, Venezuela, and well… the United States, England, and Russia.
To paraphrase H.L. Mencken the "people know what they want and deserve to get it too, and good and hard".
Posted by Ali Massoud at January 16, 2006 10:17 AM
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