I know it's "strategery", and it STINKS. It's strategery only because the Republican Party sees its fulfillment and "interests" for the future as involving this kind of obligatory political correctness: its also the self-serving
tactic behind the stubborn open borders policy, so as not
to offend Hispanics, who the Republicans see as somehow an ESSENTIAL constituency who will put them "over the top" and solidify their perennial majority party status. The rest of us just aren't consulted.
--- I know it's "strategery", and it STINKS. ---
Sounds like an opinion that is not wholly agreed with.
I happen to think that Bush's speech could have been "I have a dream...that some day all human beings will have the ability to elect their leaders".
This is certainly a Republican principle.
You can argue that it is outside our scope because it involves other nations but that suggests you have never heard the poem "No man is an island".
I think Bush believes that when the middle-east is full of democracies, those nations will be moderated in their political objectives (Killing the great satan will not be worth the loss of stability they come to cherish) and we will be safer.
Maybe he is wrong? Maybe he is right?
The hard part of course, is gonna be making it happen.
We will see how it goes.