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Democracy, the Morning After
Joe Klein on the easy rhetoric and hard realities of spreading democracy in an unstable region
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The people are demanding honest government," President George W. Bush
said last week. "The people want services. They want to be able to
raise their children in an environment in which they can get a decent
education and they can find health care." The President was talking
about Palestinians, not Americans, and he was on a roll. "If there is
corruption, I'm not surprised that people say, Let's get rid of
corruption," he added. "If government hadn't been responsive, I'm not
the least bit surprised that people
said, I want government to be...