Oh yes, I can't tell you the numerous Muslims I had to fight through to get to church this morning....
She (United States)will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... -- John Quincy Adams
Well we'll just toss that right out the window shall we? We've got to spread democracy...if the Iranians want freedom, let them rise up and take it.
"Well we'll just toss that right out the window shall we?"
Hate to break it to you, but it's been tossed out the window before.
But no one's asking for "enlisting under other banners than her own". They want support not a military invasion. And support is something we've given to a number of countries fairly recently that were seeking democracy and freedom. That's how you help spread democracy.