From Sunday’s LA Times, lead story in the right-hand column above the fold:

Headline: “Bush’s Foreign Policy Shifting”
Subhead: “Spreading democracy has become his top priority, at times trumping urgent issues. Some specialists dismiss his vision as unrealistic.”

Typical LA Times reader: “Wow, those sound like bad things! That evil Bush administration is up to no good again! Why bother even reading the article? Is my frappachino ready?”

If they did, they’d find out that 1) President Bush had articulated a strategy of democratization, and 2) his administration is implementing it, and 3) former Democratic officials and various people in the State Department are skeptical.

It’s valid to question whether the democratization plan can work. But six months into a multi-generational project — the equivalent of the containment doctrine — digging up a few people who disagree with it is not news.

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