From: Monte Davis 

John Cuccia  wrote:

>They simply can't accept the fact that overthrowing Saddam was a
>mistake.

Or one step deeper: they simply can't accept that being able to overthrow a
tyranny doesn't mean that we know how to replace it with a stable
democracy.

I think that deep down, they think that if you get rid of bad guys, liberal
democracy (rule of law, electoral losers don't reach for their guns,
respect for property rights, all that other Good Stuff) is the natural
default. Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?

That's very far from the main Anglo-American conservative tradition --
which used to spend a lot of time trying to understand the unusual and
fortunate conditions that have fostered the emergence of democracy.
Instead, they indulged in just the kind of starry-eyed wishful thinking
they like to accuse "the left" of in other contexts.

Monte Davis
http://montedavis.livejournal.com

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