これは、シンクタンクAEIに在籍するボルトンによる、エジプト政策への提言。
民主化を呼びかけることと、実際に民主主義体制を築く事は、全く別のことだという。
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http://www.aei.org/article/103225How to Make Egypt Safe for Democracy
By John R. Bolton | Standpoint Magazine Friday, February 25, 2011
エジプトの安定化と民主化のための提言 By John R. Bolton
Advocating democracy and actually building it are two radically different things. Jeane Kirkpatrick's 1979 Commentary
article, "Dictatorships and Double Standards," which first brought her to the attention of prospective presidential
candidate Ronald Reagan, deftly skewered Jimmy Carter's handling of two earlier regime crises, which may have uneasy
parallels with what is transpiring in Egypt. Kirkpatrick's characteristic honesty made famous the argument that
pro-Western authoritarian governments had at least the potential for a gradual transformation to democracy, something
no repressive communist government had ever done. But Kirkpatrick's thesis was more profound than simply a Cold War
polemic; she explained eloquently why proclaiming support for democratic ideals in no way guaranteed implementing
them successfully. Her case studies were the Shah's government in Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua,
replaced, respectively by ayatollahs in Tehran and Sandinistas in Managua. We thus moved from two authoritarian,
pro-US regimes to two even more authoritarian, anti-US regimes, partially thanks to Carter's bungling. The lesson was
plain.
