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Source: http://www.policyreview.org/apr03/kurtz.html
Democratic Imperialism: A Blueprint
(Policy Review/Hoover Institution) Stanley Kurtz - Debate over the governance of postwar Iraq pits democratizers against realists. Realists are skeptical about the prospects for cultural change in the Arab world, warning that democracy will create ethnic strife and elected despotisms. Partisans of democratization, on the other hand, are willing to take risks to achieve the sort of deep-seated cultural change that might finally put an end to regimes that harbor, sponsor, or generate terrorists. In this view, it takes democracy to make democracy.