You know...I wonder if the one who compiled this actually read Washington's words while they put them together here.
This quite aside from the non-sequitor between the question, "Should The United States Promote Democracy In Every Land?" and what the implication the writer clearly is arguing against is.
Further, there is the matter of the current situation having a context.
Yes, indeed. And the result in the debate is that President Bush used his terms as platitudes, without substantiating his assertions with logical analysis, whereas General Washington explained his views of foreign policy with analysis of the psychological processes that have governed international dealings through all time.
There is no non-sequitur in the title of the debate. While most of Mr. Bush's speech was about "Freedom," etc., he did define his policy (paragraph 6), "it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture."
I simply shortened the statement, in framing the debate.