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If I had a hammer …
How many nails must there be in its coffin before we pronounce the chimera of Muslim democratization to be dead? Hezbollah is a democratically elected part of the Lebanese legislature and government, yet that government could not prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel and setting off the current mini-war. Andrew McCarthy sums up the ongoing discrediting of the central plank of President Bush’s foreign policy, the most mindless and fatuous, and at the same time imperious and arrogant, policy of any American administration in historical memory. Also, Michelle Malkin has posted McCarthy’s article, calling it a wake-up call. I’m not aware of Malkin’s having previously criticized the Bush strategy of Muslim democratization, though I could be wrong. So maybe when she calls McCarthy’s piece a wake-up call she means it is a wake-up for herself.
A google search reveals nothing she has written using the words “spread democracy” or “democratization” at her site, but in March she had a blog entry in which she quoted McCarthy and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on the error of thinking that democracy is enough. Maybe that was the way she signalled a turn in her views.
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