The “Democracy” Hoax - Alterman

[dArKeR]

This story demonstrates a central fallacy in the Bush/Neocon argument for war that has never really been addressed by anyone.  The fact is, the more democratic Arab nations become, the more anti-American/anti-Israeli/pro-terrorist they become.  You have to choose.  Arafat is more moderate than the Palestinians who would replace him in a true democratic election and so, too, are most of the corrupt leaders of places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.  It would be an insurmountable conflict, except for the fact that the democracy talk is mostly just a pretense to justify the use of military power to get what they want, much to chagrin of the many “liberal hawks” who allowed themselves to be fooled by it.

Meanwhile, I suppose it is anti-Israeli/anti-Semitic to point out that even though Bush has all but turned over the Mideast desk of U.S. foreign policy to Ariel Sharon, he still can’t get any results from the guy even when it comes to enforcing Israel’s own laws.  “After turning aside U.S. requests for dismantling illegal outposts, Shalom stated what the two sides had agreed upon."...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

[wurzel]

1. Nearly all the governments that support US are not democratic.

And most certainly ignored their own citizens when supporting Bush over Iraq. But we have to sharply differentiate between Bush and the US when talking of anti-Americanism.

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. Yes, and the Miss America pageant is really a scholarship pageant.

"(T)he democracy talk is mostly just a pretense to justify the use of military power...."

Hmmm, don't know why, the statement just resonated that way in my brain.