Exporting Democracy

A series of essays on "exporting democracy" over at the mighty Dissent. Unfortunately, the messages are really rather trite, and I'm not so sure we can really assume away the unseriousness of intention regarding the Iraq invasion. We can, as a matter of argument, but it misses the point of the more serious question regarding how, practically-speaking, democracy is "exported" and what we mean by democracy when we try to export it.