They're now Marching For Democracy In Mongolia . Which should make the neocon who authored these words happy.

This victory of freedom is practical, not ideological: billions of people on every continent are simply concluding, based on decades of their own hard experience, that democracy and markets are the most productive and liberating ways to organize their lives.

Their conclusion resonates with America's core values. We see individuals as equally created with a God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So we trust in the equal wisdom of free individuals to protect those rights: through democracy, as the process for best meeting shared needs in the face of competing desires; and through markets as the process for best meeting private needs in a way that expands opportunity.

Both processes strengthen each other: democracy alone can produce justice, but not the material goods necessary for individuals to thrive; markets alone can expand wealth, but not that sense of justice without which civilized societies perish.

Makes sense to me. Probably not to the "hate-America" crowd...
via Glenn Reynolds

Great Article.

There is another view or stance that can be considered besides the "hate-America" crowd (which are so loud as to make one believe they are the only voice).

When I was a young man..boy really. I come from Louisiana close to New Orleans way out in the country among the evergreens (we called them piney woods). Just a little humorous truth there

Any ways many of the people in our little (remote) community were quite object to people from N.O. moving into our little quiet piece of earth and bringing with them their 'cityfied' ways. This syndrome passed with time and wasn't felt by the young people so much as the older people who were less accepting of change. But it is a view that was dominant as the elders were at the time the dominating force du joir. The influx of new people cultural change and of course new sources of revenue have been a good change to the area. The possibility of having a life there as one grew older now exists. Before, if one wanted to stay there as an adult, one must give up almost all hope of ever having anything more than a basic subsistance type lifestyle.

So, although I think it is an unworthy view it is another view based on a choice to be made.

It's called Causality, and you can thank George Walker Bush.