good point(s)

I was listening to NPR (getting old...), and caught the tail end of a Boston University debate on the strategy in Iraq. A professor from University of Chicago was explaining that blindly enforcing democracy on every country under the sun may not be such a good idea. He made two points that I thought were pretty good:

- The track record of US ain't all that hot. In fact, it's nothing short of terrible. US of A tried to instill democracy (by force, if necessary) in 35 developing countries. Out of those, only one was a success - Colombia. Yes, Colombia is our crowning achievment, a stable, safe, and prosperous country that it is today. Fantastic.

- The new Bush doctrine ("democracy by whatever means necessary") is a significant incentive for countries like Iran and North Korea to get busy developing nukes. After all, what's the biggest deterrent against outside invasion? Exactly.