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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - January 12, 2010
Another God That Failed
by Pat Buchanan
"America is Losing the Free World," was the arresting head-
line over the Financial Times column by Gideon Rachman.
His thesis:
The largest democracies of South America, Africa, the
Middle East and Asia -- Brazil, South Africa, Turkey,
India -- are all moving out of America's orbit. "(T)he
assumption that the democracies would stick together is
proving unfounded."
President Lula of Brazil has cut a "lucrative oil deal
with China, spoken warmly of Hugo Chavez," hailed Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad on his election "victory" and honored the
Iranian president with a state visit.
In the Security Council, South Africa sided with Russia
and China in killing human rights resolutions and protect-
ing Zimbabwe and Iran. Turkey has moved to engage
Hezbollah, Hamas and Tehran, and spurn Israel. Polls show
anti-Americanism surging in Turkey. From trade to sanctions
on Iran and Burma, India sides with China against America.
The ruling parties in all four were democratically elected.
Yet, in all four, democratic solidarity is being trumped
by an older solidarity -- of Third World people of color
against a "white, rich Western world."
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Writing in World Affairs, Geoffrey Wheatcroft quotes author
Aaron David Miller ("The Much Too Promised Land") that
across the Middle East America is "not liked, not respected
and not feared."
What makes this "frightening," says Wheatcroft, "is that
many American politicians and commentators... have yet
to grasp this reality. Such ignorance is evident in the
bizarre notion -- current even before George W. Bush took
the oath of office -- that America not only can and should
spread democracy, but that this would be in the American
national interest. Why did anyone think this?"
Asks Wheatcroft, "If the United States is not liked or
respected throughout the Arab countries, why on earth
would Americans want to democratize them?"
Excellent question. Some of us have been asking it of the
democracy-uber-alles neoconservatives for decades. Yet,
these democracy worshipers not only converted Bush, they
demanded and got free elections in Lebanon, the West Bank,
Gaza and Egypt. Big winners -- Hezbollah, Hamas and the
Muslim Brotherhood.
Wheatcroft quotes Eugene Rogan, who has written a history
of the Arab peoples, that "in any free and fair election
in the Arab world today, the Islamists would win hands
down. ... (T)he inconvenient truth about the Arab world
today is that in any free election, those parties hostile
to the United States are likely to win."
Given free, inclusive elections in Saudi Arabia, Jordan
and Egypt, there is a likelihood our allies would be dumped
and leaders chosen who were committed to kicking us out of
the Middle East and throwing the Israelis into the
Mediterranean.
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What, then, is the rationale for the National Endowment
for Democracy to continue tax dollars to promote such
elections?
In "World on Fire," Amy Chua writes that in Third World
countries there is almost always a "market-dominant
minority" -- Indians in East Africa, whites in South
Africa, overseas Chinese -- which, in a free-market,
attains higher levels of income and controls a
disproportionate share of the wealth.
When democracy arrives, however, the racial, tribal or
ethnic majority votes to dispossess these market-dominant
minorities.
When colonialism ended in East Africa, Indians were
massacred. The Chinese suffered a horrible pogrom in
Indonesia in 1965, when the dictator Sukarno fell -- and
another when Suharto fell. Picked clean, two-thirds of
the 250,000 whites in Rhodesia when Robert Mugabe took
power are gone. Half the Boers and Brits have fled Jacob
Zuma's South Africa. In Bolivia, Evo Morales is dispossess-
ing Europeans to reward the "indigenous people" who voted
him into power. Chavez is doing the same in Venezuela.
Query: If democracy, from Latin America to Africa to the
Middle East, brings to power parties and politicians who,
for reasons religious, racial or historic, detest the
"white, rich Western world," why are we pushing democracy
in these regions?
Our forefathers were not afflicted with this infantile
disorder. John Winthrop, whose "city on a hill" inspired
Ronald Reagan, declared that, among civil nations, "a
democracy is... accounted the meanest and worst of all
forms of government."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long," said Adams. "It
soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was
a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
Added Jefferson, "A democracy is nothing more than mob
rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the
rights of the other 49." Madison agreed: "Democracy is
the most vile form of government."
The questions raised here are crucial.
If racial and religious bonds and ancient animosities
against the West trump any democratic solidarity with the
West, of what benefit to America is democracy in the Third
World? And if one-person, one-vote democracy in multiethnic
countries leads to dispossession and persecution of the
market-dominant minority, why would we promote democracy
there?
Why would we promote a system in an increasingly anti-
American world that empowers enemies and imperils friends?
Is democratism our salvation -- or an ideology of Western
suicide?
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