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July 17, 2009Indonesia: Democracy & Terror
It's only a coincidence that former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has an op-ed out today extolling the virtues of Indonesia's "Muslim democracy" when the country suffers a serious terrorist attack. But this coincidence does underscore the problematic nature of linking the advance of democracy to the defeat of Islamic terrorism - a linkage that Wolfowitz himself was a proponent of.
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