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by Daniel Greenfield
March 15, 2013

To understand how we got to the point that spending hundreds of millions of dollars to support a government run by people who have been at war with us for almost a century is a policy that most foreign policy experts endorse, it helps to take a brief trip back in time.

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http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield...not-the-answer/

"The Arab Spring has taught us to question the idea that democracy is an absolute good. Initially the outcome of the Palestinian Arab elections that rewarded Hamas was thought not to apply to the wider region. That assumption proved to be wrong. We now know that Hamas’ victory foreshadowed the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory. And we know that Islamists have the inside track in elections because they represent a familiar ideology that has not been discredited in the minds of a majority of Muslims."

A democracy is a noble cause when the people have noble aspirations.

But what about when the majority of the population is full of hate and violence?

duh!

Zitat

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Democracy was once viewed, rightly or wrongly, as a form of American Exceptionalism. But reducing that exceptionalism to open elections misses the point. It isn’t open elections that make Americans special; it’s Americans who make open elections special. Instead of looking to systems, we should look to values. Instead of looking to governments, we should look to peoples.

The assumption that exporting democracy also exports our values is clearly wrong. It isn’t democracy that makes free people; it’s individual responsibility. Democracy with individual responsibility makes for a free nation. Democracy without individual responsibility is only another name for tyranny.

We have spent too much time looking at systems, when we should have been looking at values. We have wrongly assumed that all religions and all peoples share the same basic values that democracy can unleash for the betterment of all. That has clearly been proven to be wrong.

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Bravo Daniel Greenfield

This fellow Greenfield is proving to be one of the best thinkers and writers of our time!

What Greenfield refers to a democracy is our constitutional republic which is the result of a unique set of ingredients.

'Who Are We' is an interesting book by Samuel Huntington that explores the ingredients which comprise the distinct culture of the British settlers of the US and include the English language, judeo-christian ethics infused with Protestant values, a work ethic, individualism, religious commitment, and respect for the law.

Huntington defines the American Creed as embodying the “principles of liberty, equality, individualism, representative government, and private property”

It wasn't when the United States was founded as a FEDERATED REPUBLIC.