Posted on 09/04/05
How America sold democracy last time around
NEW YORK -- It's a story ripped from the headlines: The United States government watches its powerful military overthrow a despot halfway around the world, then comes to the hard realization that the population it conquered will not automatically embrace an American way of life. To win the hearts and minds of the people in the land it now occupies -- many of whom are still fervent supporters of the toppled leader -- it throws hundreds of millions of dollars into propaganda efforts.
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