| The aim of creating a democracy in the heart of the Middle East is a just cause. |
| In the first place, democracy cannot be imposed by military force from above. |
| The United States government and democracy has been in peril many times in its history. |
| It is too easy to condemn the past by using as a yardstick the standards of modern western democracies. |
| There are very few wealthy countries that are not also stable liberal democracies. |
| Is it much different in this country, or indeed, in most Western democracies? |
