Moonbats in Denial

Though Answer.Org is wavering, the tin-foil hat brigade at Democratic Underground can't admit the Bush Doctrine is working. Instead, they keep insisting up is down. Here's some typical posts:

• Caring for the victim (Iraq) of a rape doesn't mean alliance with the rapist.
  
  Forcing 'democracy' on a nation through military force is the moral equivalent of forcing 'love' on a woman at the point of a gun.



• There seems to be all of this rosy news all over in the last week or so about democracy breaking out all over the Middle East.
  
  Is it? Did the brazen bullies rattle their chains so badly that Europe and the Middle East are now going to come aboard our great Democracy train? hat in hand? bowing low to kiss the ring?
  
  This seems to have happened after the Iraqi elections and the events in Lebanon.
  
  It makes me crazy because it goes against so much of what I want to believe about the world...if indeed "might makes right", violence conquers after all, if democracy can be accomplished by force.



• [T]he world sees how a so-called "democracy" [presumably, referring to the US] can behave in an utterly fascist way and still unabashedly call themselves a democracy.

Frick'n babies. They've already forgotten the Cold War, won by strength, not by Nixonian détente. Sixty years of "all-carrot-all-the-time" freed fewer than two years of Bush's carrot and stick. MaxedOutMama has the straight dope about the DU dopes:

I can't think of any democratic country that hasn't endured a certain amount of violence to get there. Kings and dictators being overthrown.... All of Europe's history for the last few centuries (and these are democratic states) is the story of revolt and struggle against oppression. I think the poster is concerned about the fact a war intervened, but is ignoring the reality that Saddam Hussein was a brutal mass-murdering dictator. Germany, for instance, got to be a democracy as a result of Hitler's very forcible removal. Does this commenter think that was wrong? What does he or she think democracy is?

The answer to her rhetorical question--democracy is the right to be wrong--protection DU dummies need daily.

(via MaxedOutMama)