>The notion that this government makes any net effort in the developing
>world to promote democracy is laughable. Turkey is not even terribly
>repressive compared to our other "friends". Russia is not just being
>allowed, but encouraged to slide into authoritarianism (and Chris,
>it's not just the Chechens that Moscow is beating up). The chimerical
>construction, accepted among the chattering classes of media and
>politics, that Bush is fighting a war for democracy is assinine. The
>only valid critique is to point out that this nation ALWAYS puts its
>interests first and democracy in other countries is clearly well down
>our list of interests. The Bush claim is a lie and you shouldn't
>engage it on its own terms as if it were true.
RIght. It doesn't matter that millions of people firmly believe something that you, boddi, know to be untrue. And so all we need to do is tell them it's untrue, and everything then becomes groovy. I hadn't realized that politics is so easy!
Doug