Glanz Struggles To Obfuscate Contradictions

If the catalytic reaction set in motion by elections cannot be stopped once it starts, then a better solution may be to promote democracy in a way that is tailored to the most dangerous realities of each country.

… The ascendancy throughout the region of political Islam is, therefore, the first problem that the United States must solve as it pushes democratic reform.

… The appeal of the Islamist parties is often simply that they are well organized, untainted by the corruption of an entrenched regime, and able to provide things like child care and funeral services to local neighborhoods.

… Mr. Baram is another believer that carefully designed forms of democracy will be able to work [in Iraq and Lebanon]. … “It has to be approached on a country-by-country solution,”….

James Glanz, “A Little Democracy or a Genie Unbottled,” New York Times, 1/29/06. [emphasis added]