The $270 Billion Question

It seems even the pseudocon bloggers at National Review's The Corner are beginning to question our crusade for democracy in the Middle East:

A Naughty Question [John Derbyshire]

I shall probably get disinvited from the next White House tea dance just for asking the following question, but I'm going to ask it anyway.

Given that the four London suicide bombers were all raised--in at least one case, born and raised--in Britain, the quintessential liberal democracy; and given that the entire premise of current U.S. policy is that we can end suicide bombing and other terrorism by bringing liberal democracy to the Middle East; shouldn't we be re-thinking our policy?

Posted at 01:36 PM

That, my friends, is the $270 billion (and counting) question.