MAX POWER responds to charges that a U.S. occupation government in Iraq would be “colonialism:”

What’s wrong with a little colonialism? Are people saying that the brown peoples of Iraq aren’t worthy of Western-style democracy and freedoms?

And I would love to see any of these so-called opponents to colonialism speak out against Wahhabist colonialism in Europe or Afghanistan (or the repeated Arab desire to colonize Israel by force and commit genocide in the process). The failure to do so shows that the objection is not to colonialism but to the West and to democracy. It’s frankly appalling and close to racist to see people complaining that a repressive and murderous dictatorship might get replaced by a democracy because the people leading the transition aren’t the same skin color as the victims of the totalitarian regime.

Indeed.