[discostu]

So we shouldn't try? That's not the American way. And in the end it doesn't really matter if we succeed in making democracy work in the Mid-East, what matters is that we succeed in making terorism fail, functioning democracies are purely icing.

[RussianConservative]

Prediction 2: when US leave and Shiete islamics take over, more terrorism out of Iraq then before when socialist murderer in power...now islamic revolutionary murders in power. Want terrorism gone? Go bomb allie Saudi Arabia, who real sponsor of terror.

Why is it bad when other nation do premptive attack but not when US does so?

[Ohioan]

So we shouldn't try? That's not the American way. And in the end it doesn't really matter if we succeed in making democracy work in the Mid-East, what matters is that we succeed in making terorism fail, functioning democracies are purely icing.

1. The Washington/Jefferson foreign policy was based upon treating others with respect. The idea of our imposing our values on others is a repudiation of the American way.

2. Trying to force our values on others is hardly a way to make terrorism fail. It is the surest way to aid Terrorist recruiting.

3. Under Dean Rusk, we created a lot of misery in the Third World, by trying to force "Democracy" on multi-tribal, multi-cultural Third World Nations. It is a cruel, not humane idea. It is also an oxymoron, suggesting that you can impose a system, supposedly based upon the will of a people, on that people from outside.

Instead of such pious nonsense, let us instead put an advocate for imposing Democracy to the test, much nearer to home than the Middle or Near East: David Frum To Haiti Project.

If David can deliver, I will even agree to treat him with respect. If not, maybe we can be done with his pipe dream.

William Flax