


But if you take the anger about George Bush out of the equation, along with the Iraq war and the fear of any more invasions by the U.S., why not support democratic reform in the Middle East? We know the alternatives only play into the hands of terrorists.
That's why presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., recently said that America needed to support democracy and pressure Gen. Pervez Musharraf to restore elections in Pakistan.
Few Democrats or Republicans would disagree with his idealistic rhetoric. Although Obama wouldn't express the same support for the struggling Iraqi democracy, he sort of sounded like a softer neocon - more worried about the lack of freedom in Pakistan than the fact we might undermine a strongman with nukes and a restive population>>.
Un lungo estratto dal bell'editoriale di Victor Davis Hanson "With Iraq Improving, Will Neocon Ideas Return?", sul ritorno in auge di alcune idee neocon - quali la democratizzazione del Medio Oriente - ora propugnate anche da esponenti di punta del partito democratico.
