The Bush administration has launched an ambitious bid to promote democracy in the “greater Middle East” that will adapt a model used to press for freedoms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Senior White House and State Department officials have begun talks with key European allies about a master plan to be put forward this summer at summits of the Group of Eight nations, NATO allies and the European Union, U.S. officials say. With international backing, the United States then hopes to win commitments of action from Middle Eastern and South Asian countries.
Will the “human rights” community back this, or succumb to not-invented-here syndrome?
UPDATE: Belgravia Dispatch has more on this, in a somewhat less positive vein.
Robert Tagorda, on the other hand, is very pleased.