As for democracy, Agresto understands that the right to vote is no guarantee of freedom, toleration or respect for the rights of others. Without those prerequisites, democracy can mean tyranny at home and terrorism abroad.
Apparently the American civilian authorities in Iraq did not understand this or else they let that understanding be overridden by political considerations.
Sowell would've broken through to reality had he included Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle and William Kristol among those who "did not understand this."
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