In occasione della visita della Rice a Parigi, ha pubblicato un'analisi critica di Suzanne Nossel che chiama la sinistra a «riprendersi la Libertà», come tema e obiettivo politico.
«The Bush administration - Nossel concedes - has adopted traditional progressive principles and policies, such as fostering liberal democracy and nation-building abroad, and put its own imprint on them to the point where progressives have virtually abandoned concepts that they used to develop and own. The concept of spreading liberty did not feature in the progressive punditry's criticism of the State of the Union».Di oggi, vi segnalo, sul Guardian, John Negroponte che esalta gli elettori iracheni che hanno sconfitto la paura recandosi alle urne il 30 gennaio, dimostrando ancora una volta (come in Sud Africa, El Salvador e Ucraina) che la democrazia è «più forte della paura», e Daniel Henninger, che sul Wall Street Journal propone con argomenti forti di assegnare agli elettori iracheni il nobel per la pace.
Volete ben dieci buone ragioni per sostenere la democrazia in Medio Oriente? Ve le offre Victor Davis Hanson su National Review, dal cui articolo riporto un estratto dalla parte finale:
«Democracy was not our first, but rather out last choice in the Middle East. For decades we have promoted Cold War realpolitik and supported thugs whose merit was simply that they were not as bad as a murderous Saddam or Assad (true enough), while the Arab world has gone from kings and dictators to Soviet puppets, Pan-Arabists, Islamists, and theocrats. Democracy in some sense is the last chance. It alone offers constitutional guarantees of free speech, minority rights, and an independent judiciary — a framework, a system, a paradigm in which naturally savage humans, prone to all sorts of awful things, as the 20th county attests, can somehow get along. Given the savagery of the modern Middle East that would say quite a lot».
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