Exporting democracy: your mission, if you choose to accept it...

like they have any choice...

A new strategy document issued Wednesday by the Bush administration ranks efforts to "bolster the growth of democracy" among the three top missions for American intelligence agencies.

John D. Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, said the rankings were intended to align the work of intelligence agencies with the administration's broader national security goals. The top two "mission objectives" are efforts to counter terrorism and weapons proliferation.

imho, democracy needs a lot of "bolstering" right here at home...

Main Entry: bolster
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): bol·stered; bol·ster·ing /-st(&-)ri[ng]/
1 : to support with or as if with a bolster : REINFORCE
2 : to give a boost to

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