From over at the Brookings Institute:
The jury remains out over whether democracy in the Arab world would yield governments more supportive of U.S. interests, produce populaces less sympathetic to jihadists or prevent al Qaeda from pursuing its goals through terrorism. At stake is more than presidential rhetoric. Democracy promotion has become the sole and defining element of President Bush's long-term counterterrorism approach. That is why the administration has an obligation to go beyond assertion and demonstrate convincingly that its one-dimensional strategy will yield the desired result. If it cannot, the administration risks putting all of our security eggs in the wrong basket.
Yeah, those light-brown people might not always agree with us, so we should go back to the good old days of dictatorships.
We know how well that worked after all:
Don't bother reading the editorial, its long on criticism but doesn't present any alternatives. I only linked to it to be polite.
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