Max Boot is a well-known neo-conservative. Alexander Boot, his father, is much more of a paleo-conservative. Who’ll make the world free from democracy?, he asks:
The systematic effort to unseat relatively secular, if undoubtedly unsavoury, regimes because they lack universal suffrage can only charitably be described as harebrained. Americans in general, and the neocons in particular, fail to notice that all those Shahs tend to be replaced by Khomeinis, not James Madisons. The natural successor to Mubarak will resemble Osama more than Obama.
(Hat tip to Samuel Lenser.)