I condemned the War in Iraq in no uncertain terms. The Conservative movement justified partially by saying it was an effort to "kick-start" democracy in the Middle East.
Now we see democratic or popular revolutions all over the place. I can only assume this is what the Conservatives planned on happening. It seems that many of them do not support these revolutions - seeing terrorists behind every Arab yearning for change - but the burden is on them to explain why. If you accept the rationale for Iraq, it seems as if you must accept this opening to democracy. If not, what are your words except traps for the unwary?
So apparently I was wrong... again: Iraq - good!
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Here I am reminded of our Rah-Rah support of election by the Palestinian whatever-the-hell-it-is. Rah-Rah, that is, until the victors turned out to be people the Bush Administration didn't like. Then it was "To Hell With Democracy!" Obviously democracy is only good if it favors us -- and if it favors us, why, then democracy is a kind of sweetener, but that's all it really is.
If de Toqueville were to write about Democracy in America now, he would be perplexed indeed by the status of "democracy" as a weasel-word.
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