Reply #47: I know. This happened when Sharansky, who's written [View All]

about democracy and thinks open governments would transform the Middle East, had the temerity to open his mouth on the tube. He was debated by that beacon of light Pat Buchanan.

So, whom did many DU'ers support in that debate? You got it. Mr. Better the Dictator You Know Than The Democracy You Don't - Buchanan.

Now - is this simply because Sharansky is Israeli, or what? He is Jewish, a refugee from persecution in the Soviet Union - a person who knows a lot about totalitarian governments and the toll they take on individual people as well as entire nations.

So given his credentials it's a little baffling that people didn't want to hear what he had to say. Maybe people still admire the Soviet Union?

Maybe it's not that he's Israeli. Maybe he's a "neocon"? He was a member of Sharon's government. THAT must be it.

Hmmmmmmm.

Or maybe, people don't really give a rat's ass about democracy, open governments and reform, if they're advocated by or for, "the wrong people?"

Hello?