Don't democratize
The American Conservative
by John Laughland
02/27/06
Neocons believe, as George W. Bush said in 2002, that the great struggles of the 20th century have ended in the decisive victory of 'a single sustainable model for national success.' They welcomed the end of the Cold War precisely because it overcame the division of the world into competing political systems and seemed to create in its place the beginnings of a monolithic unipolar world system with America and American values -- especially universal human rights -- as its ideological core. Islam presents an obstacle to the full realization of this goal and this is why neocons have now announced that they intend to 'democratize' the whole of the Middle East as well. Yet it is these underlying beliefs about the international system that give the lie to the neocon claim to want to democratize the planet...
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_02_27/article2.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by John Laughland
02/27/06
Neocons believe, as George W. Bush said in 2002, that the great struggles of the 20th century have ended in the decisive victory of 'a single sustainable model for national success.' They welcomed the end of the Cold War precisely because it overcame the division of the world into competing political systems and seemed to create in its place the beginnings of a monolithic unipolar world system with America and American values -- especially universal human rights -- as its ideological core. Islam presents an obstacle to the full realization of this goal and this is why neocons have now announced that they intend to 'democratize' the whole of the Middle East as well. Yet it is these underlying beliefs about the international system that give the lie to the neocon claim to want to democratize the planet...
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2006_02_27/article2.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 28. Feb, 18:29
