Non-interventionist Libertarians, now at a loss to credibly attack Bush’s premise of spreading democracy in the face of obvious success, devolve instead into attacking democracy itself.

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn in his article “Democracy’s Road to Tyranny” posted on the "Foundation for Economic Freedom" [http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=1901] opens with "Plato, in his Republic, tells us that tyranny arises, as a rule, from democracy." Far from espousing noble truth's or asserting that men should be free to rule themselves, Plato was bashing democracy in favor of a rule by elite philosopher kings who held complete sway over peoples lives and property. Plato was the founding father of dictatorial communism, and isolationist libertarians are now waving his flag. Disgusting.