It seems that a lot of the Republican Right is ready to give up on this sissy chit-chat about democracy in Iraq. From Michelle Goldberg's very interesting article on a conference of Iraq war fans, including some of the leading luminaries of conservative Republicanism (my emphasis):
<< The self-regarding humanitarianism that the right wrapped itself in before the war with Iraq is beginning to fray and chafe. At Restoration Weekend ... the right's intellectuals and activists had largely scrapped talk of democracy. Some suggested that the Iraqis themselves are our enemy, that we owe them nothing. ... The implication seemed to be that Iraq is both lucky and greedy. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
<< Meanwhile, those troubled by Bush's decision to cut and run blamed it on Democrats and the liberal media, who through their unfair scrutiny of irrelevancies like Bush's uranium claim and the Valerie Plame affair were sapping the national will. [David] Horowitz accused [the online magazine] Salon itself of compromising the country's security by sniping at the commander in chief, repeating the phrase "ideas have consequences," over and over. It wasn't quite clear which ideas he was talking about -- that Bush's case for war was mendacious? That it would be preferable to have a different president? Yet the consequences, he was clear, would be catastrophic. >>
(Cont. in Part 2)
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