By Natan Sharansky & Rod Dermer on 6.2.07 @ 11:40AM
Democracy hasn't failed in the Middle East. Rather, it has hardly
been attempted, let alone defended, despite the Bush
administration's commitments and correct understanding of its
indispensability to U.S. national security.
This essay is the eighth in a ten-part series being
published in successive issues of The American Spectator
under the general title, "The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Ideals
That Made America Great Provide a Model for the World?"
(Also in The American Spectator's Pursuit of
Liberty series: Daniel Johnson's "The
Storks Are Landing," Fouad Ajami's "Liberty
for Strangers," Michael Novak's "The Ebb
and Flow of Global Liberty," and Victor Davis Hanson's
"Armies
for Democracy -- Past, Present, and Future." To read the
first five essays in the series, please click here.)
