One of the negative reviews from Amazon:
Nothing is ever all of what it seems
Reviewer:renfro (USA) -
The average person seeking a simple answer to justify their own particular "leanings" too often accepts in the whole whatever is put in front of them without examining at the real message.
The first thing I want to know about a writer is his personal history because that will tell me what "emotions" he bases his "reasoning" on.
Sharansky, like many of our current would be "shapers" and masters of the universe is a personally "damaged" person. Like an abused child who dreams of killing his abuser, he promotes destruction as the answer to making "his" world safe.
We see this in many of the policy makers of our current administration. Wolfowitz and Feith are good examples of damaged people who were taught by their fathers, who escaped nazi Poland, that Hitler was under every bed and the US shrugged it's duty in not doing more to stop him and now must set the entire world right to make it safe for them.
Never mind that it doesn't work and that his historical argument for it is faulty and inaccurate and that the case he makes for Israeli aggression is one that has already failed.
His theory is really a rant and a cry for revenge against his own
victimhood. Democracy through total destruction is not a principle of American democracy or even a workable plan, it's a pipe dream of the formerly powerless who have spent their entire lives working toward exocising their own demons through the use of American power.
Beware the damaged people who transfer their own personal torment to radical democratic theories.
Even the healthly and normal among us have some perceived sense of individual powerlessness or slight injustice in our lives and people like Sharansky provide the sick pit of revenge and power for them to fall into if they aren't careful.
Don't fall in this trap
Amazon.com: Books: The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
Address:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1586482610/qid=1106710430/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-6669097-8164712Apparently, the amazon reviewer thinks those who have suffered under communism or some other tyranny don't deserve to praise the merits of democracy and freedom. To accuse Sharansky of a rant is to project, obviously, the reviewers emotional heat onto a true intellectual and man of courage. Sharansky risked a great deal as a dissident. He risked far more than most of us will ever risk.