Nuc
Senior Member
Our brand of democracy is as foreign a concept in the Middle East as Arab culture is to most of WASP America. In that regard, I consider our Middle East policy not reality based. To introduce our form of democracy in the Middle East would take at a minimum 2 generations so that we had at least one generation raised in it. Neither the American public nor the Arabs are going to stand for that. Our attention span is good for about 3 years tops.
At best, they will have a bastardized form of democracy that incorporates Arab culture and Islam.
Totally agreed. That's why the Bush policy is well intentioned but stupid. He didn't know enough about the people or the region before he made his utopian decisions. His lack of personal experience with the larger world has bit him (and us) in the ass.