[Publius]

Barry Goldwater identified this problem half a century ago.

Back then, the UN and the US Foreign Policy Community had an absolute mania for decolonizing Africa and other parts of the world. Goldwater called this a fool's errand. He pointed out that some people aren't ready for democracy, and for cultural and religious reasons they may never be. He predicted that the mania for democratization would only create a playground for the CIA and KGB. He argued for a hard-headed approach where it would be best for a nation to be ruled by a benevolent dictator, and one preferably loyal to the US, not the Soviet Union.

He was excoriated by the Mainstream Media for "wrong-headed thinking" and an "unprogressive" approach. But history proved him right. Islam will have to go through something like the Enlightenment before it can support democracy.

[nathanbedford]

No surprise that leftists criticized Goldwater for being "unprogressive" for his abandonment of Wilsonian foreign policy.

The old saw, "democracies do not make war on each other" is true as far as it goes but it does not go far in explaining what goes into making a democracy. Wilsonian ideals led us astray in Iraq and in Afghanistan but I suspect there is something far more sinister afoot motivating the Obama administration's foreign policy in support of The Muslim Brotherhood.

The intimacies are just too great to be explained away as merely good statecraft. The infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into this administration has been documented and one need point to no more evidence than Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff.

Some day all will be revealed.

[apoliticalone]

“Barry Goldwater identified this problem half a century ago.”

Yet there are people in our government both D&R that think we should be poking our nose into the business of every country in the world changing regimes and governments, and it ends up they all hate us.

Take care of the USA economically and financially and we’ll be strong enough to defend the USA. But keep up this spreading democracy and invading sovereign nations, and we’ll end up like the Roman Empire. Unfortunately there is now too much influence in government from those making big bucks from our endless foreign military endeavors.