The Middle East and Neoconservative Democracy

Bringing democracy to the unwashed masses of the Arab world was a neoconservative mantra long before they hijacked the Bush presidency to use as their own ideological testing ground.

In the abstract, the idea is a noble one. In reality, it has been a disaster in Iraq – where democracy was imposed at point of gun with ruinous results – and pretty much a non-starter elsewhere in the region.

This despite ample evidence that self-rule – although not necessarily a catholic version of American democracy – is attractive to Arabs who understand that they’ve been held back by their so-called leaders and the ultra orthodoxy of their faith.

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