Daniel Henninger vom Wall Street Journal fragt sich, was die meisten Europäer am großen Traum aller Neocons, dem Demokratieexport, eigentlich am meisten stört: die Mittel, mit denen exportiert werden soll und über die sich ja unter Demokraten prima streiten ließe, oder aber das Exportgut selbst.

Democracy Has Been Demoted - Burma’s monks missed word that it is now out of favor.   

“If before deciding to fill Rangoon’s streets the “saffron-robed” monks had spent more time reading pundits and foreign-policy intellectuals in Washington or Western Europe, they would have known that democracy has been demoted.
The Bush Doctrine’s critics will say this is unfair, that they support aspiring democracies, that their critique of the neocons is mostly about Iraq. Perhaps, but I would argue that this tidy distinction—“we only mean Iraq, we’re all for Burma”—has been lost on the popular imagination. The anti-Bush, anti-neocon obsession has been so constant, so often pegged to the broader Bush “dream” for democracy and freedom, that its critics have tossed out the world’s democratic babies with the Iraqi and Afghan bathwater.”