The democrat mind

“There’s a great temptation to stand up and say, ‘We’ll help you rid the country of a dictator,’ ” one senior administration official said, insisting on anonymity because of the delicacy of the discussions. “But the president has been clear that what’s sweeping across the Middle East is organic to the region, and as soon as we become a military player, we’re at risk of falling into the old trap that Americans are stage-managing events for their own benefit.”
That old Germany-Soviet Union trap, eh?
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The divisions in Congress on the issue are significant as well. Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, said Wednesday that he was “very conscious of the unpredictability of history in this part of the world,” noting that revolutions went go off course, “Iran being the classic example.”
Off course? Khomeini wanted to make it Switzerland?
It's hard to see a more detestable mindset in America. They sound just like Italian Communist academics.