Well, this is certainly a brutal way to start off an editorial:
Bush’s Dangerous “Democratic Revolution” and the Troop Dispatch
If you look at American President George Bush’s November 6 policy speech during the National Endowment for Democracy’s 20th anniversary ceremony, it clearly reveals how arrogant and reckless the Bush Administration is becoming.
Don’t hold back, Hani - tell us what you really think. Later in the same editorial:
Public opinion against President Bush and his foreign policy has never been higher, not just in the Middle East but in most of the global community. This is primarily due to his unilateral, illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and his imperialist plan to restructure the Middle East. Support among Americans for Bush’s Iraq policy has dropped to below 45%. Despite this, for him to say that he will propel a more active “democracy revolution” reveals that the Bush Administration’s foreign policy, which is led by a minority of hawkish neocons, is loosing even the slightest sense of reality.
The horrors - attempting to install a representative democracy in Iraq. This coming from people who undoubtedly blame the United States for NOT intervening to prevent the Kwangju Massacre. And unilateralism is all good when it comes to North Korea, right? As Bill Safire once put it, “Our Asian friends are quite content to let the United States “engage” the threat alone. Unilateral U.S. appeasement suddenly looks good to them; let the sunshine in.”
Democracy in the Middle East - a dangerous, imperialist, and unrealistic idea. Or so claim the editors of one of South Korea’s most “progressive” newspapers.
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Public opinion against President Bush and his foreign policy has never been higher, not just in the Middle East but in most of the global community.
No…really?!? You mean the spread of representative democracy is distasteful to Arab autocrats and U.N.-sanctioned thugs, dictators, and non-elected bureaucrats? Well, in that case, I guess the Bush administration is reckless.