Bush confuses elections with democracy, promotes Islamic fundamentalists

Democracy depends not just on elections but on a rule of law, on stable
institutions, on basic economic security for the population, and on checks
and balances that forestall a tyranny of the majority. Elections in the
absence of this key societal context can produce authoritarian regimes and
abuses as easily as they can produce genuine people power. George Bush is on
the whole unwilling to invest sufficiently in these key institutions and
practices abroad. And by either creating or failing to deal with hated
foreign occupations, he has sown the seeds for militant Islamist movements
that gain popularity because of their nationalist credentials.

Within the context of these facts, do any of these following sound familiar:
-- "We will not talk with Hamas."
-- Sunni-Shia-Kurd


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