Immaculate Conception

For some time now, I've been wondering why Bush and his neo-conservative thugs spend so much time pushing freedom and democracy around the rest of the world when they are destroying our own freedoms and democracy at the very same time. It just doesn't seem to make sense. (Of course, you may properly call me an idiot for expecting anything associated with Bush to make sense). Even today, I read in the headlines about Bush pushing China (from a safe distance in Japan) to grant its people more freedoms. Well, I finally came up with a potential logical explanation (we used to call these "immaculate conceptions" at my former workplace): I suspect that the neocons believe that democracies are inherently weak. Hence, by forcing the rest of the world to democratize, we weaken them, strengthening ourselves by comparison. Since the ultimate goal of the neocons is world domination by the U.S., this strategy makes perfect sense. Meanwhile, we strengthen ourselves at home by destroying the very freedoms we are attempting to foist upon the rest of the world.

A working hypothesis, at least. Seems to me it fits pretty well.