Democracy Delusion: The West's Interests Aren't Always Best Served by One Man, One Vote (World‪)‬

HOW MANY Islamic republics would you like? How many do you think the world needs? Spreading democracy across the Muslim world--as so many enlightened people say they wish to do--should certainly increase the number. Yet the enthusiasts for planting democracy all over the planet also tend to be the people who dislike Islamic republics and warn endlessly about their likely use as bases for terror. How on earth are we to make sense of this contradiction? Are we once again in the realm of doublethink, the invariable result of dogma? If so, is the dogma a dangerous one?