The Secret Ballot

[Beestie]

Fine. Democratize the entire middle east.

Anyone want to take a wild freakin' guess who the citizens of many middle eastern states would elect as president in the (highly unlikely) event such an election were to occur?

Its fine to wish for democracy and freedom but its naive not to mention ironic that we (the United States) think we can engineer the outcome of a "free and democratic" process.

And, no, there is no way on this earth that Bush would go to the trouble and expense of "freeing" a country only to have them elect representatives hostile to the United States.

Freedom is freedom.

I'm more or less ok with constructive intervention but we must be very careful what we wish for and we need to thank our lucky stars that most middle eastern countries are NOT democratic.

edited to fix a grammar error - content unchanged.