re: #267 brookly red

“Painful as it may be to admit, it was the despised former U.S. President George W. Bush who believed in the democratization of the Muslim world and incurred the scorn and mockery of the Left for his conviction,” says the piece by Jan Fleischhauer.

- Der Spiegel magazine

“The left” scorned Bush for believing in the democratization of the Muslim world? I thought he got scorned for trying to force democratization at the end of a gun, based on a rationale that was proven to be false.