Penny for the thoughts of the Neoconservatives who took power with George W. Bush and launched the Iraq war based on what are now largely undisputed falsifications. That country fell in a top-down, brutal military invasion that destroyed its infrastructure and decimated its populace. It was essentially removed as a nation. The costs of the war will be dwarfed now by the costs of rebuilding.
And the twin Neoconservative lies that (1) Democracy could be created by force without grassroots organization or institutions, and that (2) Democracies don't launch wars are now exposed, also even outside of any reasonable dispute. But what we did learn from the Neoconservative Junta is that dictators launch wars. Thus their fetish for the Unitary Executive, a President that can launch wars without a declaration of war from Congress, create extrajudicial "commissions," hold individuals indefinitely in violation of Due Process. They installed a dictator and did exactly what they purported to oppose.
Rewind to the speech Barack Obama gave in Cairo. An opening and a reaching out to the Arab and Muslim world. Victor Hugo's maxim, that stronger than the mightiest armed force is the power of an idea whose time has come, writ large, has been realized right before our very eyes. And with it comes the messier forms of a Democracy. What is the West to do when those they violently disagree with are elected to power though the very Democractic process they so vocierfously purport to hold as their mission, the raison d'etre?
This will get interesting indeed.
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