Blair who invaded more than one nation as PM, attempting to impose democracy?

By definition, outsiders can't "impose" democracy on a country that doesn't want it; demand for democracy and reform must be domestic.

Rather, it is to understand that we cannot impose democracy on a country with such different cultural and political traditions from ours.

The question, of course, with Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan is whether you can impose democracy by military might from outside.

If we are too timid to impose democracy, we owe it to our sense of right and wrong to at least level the killing field.

As one local analyst has knottily observed: "Is it democratic for an absolute monarch to impose democracy?"

After the searing experience of Iraq, few among us believe that outsiders can impose democracy at the point of a gun.

Yet if campaigning is so dismal, why are we trying to impose democracy on others?

He finds many failed attempts to impose democracy by military intervention.

The administration showed its arrogance once again in trying to impose democracy on Arab countries, especially after beginning by bombing.