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” . .failure to understand accurately . . .”
-— compounded by a bone-headed refusal to acknowledge the fundmental nature of the enemies’ mind set.
One of the relatively few errors of Pres. George W. was his prompt and needless labelling of Islam as a “religion of peace.” Fortunately, a great many Muslims seem of a mind to disregard the demands of their revered “Book” that all those that refuse to submit to Allah must die.
Islam is simply a way to power. That's why the Democrats love them.
Darn it. Bruce is falling into the old trap of conflating democracy with a liberal (in the original sense of free) civil society, assuming the two are the same. They're not.
Democracy is seven wolves and six sheep voting on what to have for dinner. A liberal civil society is the recognition that the sheep have inalienable rights the wolves, despite their being a majority, do not have the right to take away.
A free civil society can exist, at least to some extent, under a wide variety of governmental types. Elections are not an essential component. Free civil society is about how the government treats its citizens, not about how the government is chosen.
Democracy, OTOH, is simply about how the government is chosen, not about what the government does when it is in power. There is no reason at all why it must coincide with a free civil society.
Iran has a sort-of democracy, with frequent and often somewhat free elections. Our own South, under Jim Crow, had regular elections in which the majority freely chose to oppress the minority, though to be fair the minority was often prevented from participating in those elections.
Egypt apparently held reasonably fair elections, and the foes of a free civil society won with 3 out of 4 votes.
To Bruce and most commentators this means Egyptian voters are rejecting democracy. It means no such thing, what it means is that they reject a free civil society. That IS their democratic choice.