What Democracy Promotion Looks Like Posted by Max Bergmann

Robert Kagan's column today that Obama and progressives don't care about promoting democracy and freedom is worth reading only if you want to remember how truly scary it was to have these people running U.S. foreign policy. In an open letter to Kagan, Matt Duss shows some empathy: 

These last years have been extraordinarily unkind to your grand theories about the transformative potential of American explosives. e potential of American explosives. President Bush’s “global war on terror,” the invasion of Iraq, his so-called “freedom agenda,” turned out to be a real carnival of bad ideas, for which you were a key intellectual barker. It’s hard out here for a neocon. But I have to say, Mr. Kagan, your op-ed this morning is really beneath you. You can’t actually believe that President Obama is “siding with the Iranian regime” against the Iranian people, or that Obama’s outreach to Iran depends upon keeping hardliners in power, can you? You’re far too intelligent to buy the brutishly simplistic “realism” that you attempt to hang upon President Obama’s approach.

What Kagan and other conservatives don't get is that this is exactly what democracy promotion looks like:

This is not what democracy promotion looks like:

Iranian demonstrators were not inspired by tanks going into Baghdad or by threats of American bombings, instead they were inspired - in perhaps a small but significant way - by the the prospect for change - a prospect that only increased with Obama's outreach efforts. That is what democracy promotion looks like.

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