Bush's democracy-worship

Pat Buchanan comments on Bush's view of democracy:

How does the president think the Arab peoples would vote on the following questions: 1) Should the United States get out of Iraq? 2) Is it fair to compare Israel's treatment of Palestinians to Nazi treatment of the Jews? 3) Do Arab nations have the same right to an atom bomb as Ariel Sharon? 4) Is Osama bin Laden a terrorist or hero?

If Bush believes he and we are popular in the Islamic world, why has he not scheduled a grand tour of Rabat, Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Riyadh and Islamabad to rally the masses to America's side, rather than preach democracy at them from the White House? If one-man, one-vote democracy came suddenly to the Arab world, every pro-American ruler in the region would be at risk of being swept away.

Yet, there is a larger issue here than misreading the Arab mind. Whence comes this democracy-worship, this belief by President Bush that "the voice of the people ought to be determining policy"?

Would Bush himself let a poll of Americans decide how long we keep troops in Iraq? Would he submit his immigration policy to popular vote?

Of course, "democracy" is just a code word used by the Neocons for any Middle Eastern government that obeys their commands.