Opertion Proceeding as Designed

"Yet, as the AP noted, 'the success of religious-based candidates or parties [in the Middle East], many of whom are hostile to Mr. Bush and opposed to American ideas, is sobering.'

Of course it is not. For something to be 'sobering' implies that it was to some degree unexpected. Of course, if you're blind drunk and swerving hazardously on the road to democracy, as this administration is doing, it's natural to expect a crash.

Perhaps the reality is a combination of the two. The ideologues in the administration, caught up in their own pretensions to universal values, blended harmoniously with the realists, who understood that democracy could bring them a lot of war- and the spoils that come with it. They're not done by a long shot. And neither is 'democracy.'"

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