Is "American style democracy" to be forced onto a foreign country, with its own culture, traditions and history, dianavan?
Is it any wonder then that there is such anti-US feeling in the world?


From Harvard Magazine, July-August 2003:
Ultimately, democracy must be homegrown....
I don't think the United States can help build such institutions alone. Our credibility is shot in the Arab world; we are perceived primarily as imperialists, out to build a postwar Iraq that serves our own national interests.