American Memory
February 23, 2005
The Limits of Democratization: Will promoting democracy bolster national security? by Julian Sanchez
George W. Bush may cite Jesus as his favorite political philosopher, but his ideas on foreign policy bear a distinctly Kantian imprimatur.
Democracy's chief virtue is that it gives the people what they want—often "good and hard," as H. L. Mencken famously added. In much of the world, alas, "what they want" does not, in the near term, include our safety or happiness. We assume that it does at our peril.
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