Will it safely midwife the birth of democracy in the Middle East and elsewhere even if this works against its strategic interests?
The answer here is a flat NO. There is absolutely no way the United States is going to midwife the birth of Democracy in the Middle East especially if such "democracy" works against it's geo-stratagic/political interest...ie OIL and Israeli Interest.
Recently when US President George Bush's said that the "establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution," many analysts sneered.
Probably rightly so... I really strongly doubt as to whether the US can successfully succeed in establishing democracy among the arabs in Iraq. Only the American Neo-Con do believe this notion . Nonetheless the Jury is still out on this one.
Matek
