Fading U.S. democracy agenda evokes Arab scorn
ReutersThey say this was clear from the moment the United States and the European Union boycotted the government set up by Hamas in March 2006 after the Islamists trounced Abbas's Fatah faction in free elections that Washington had insisted go ahead.
"That was the hair in the soup in terms of the democracy agenda," said Lebanese commentator Michael Young, who had supported Bush's thesis that invading Iraq in 2003 would undermine undemocratic Arab regimes elsewhere.
"The U.S. response (to Hamas's election win) was: 'we'll accept democracy but not if it means the other side can win'."
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