If It's Sunday...

...it's Meet the Press.

Yesterday, my guy Russert had Natan Sharansky, author of this tome on the redeeming power of democracy as a guest, debating Pat Buchanan on the merits of W's favorite theme, spreading freedom.

(Side note: my buddy Joe Carper says spreading freedom sounds like something which requires either a knife or a condom)

Supposedly, Sharansky's book is one of W's favorites. (All you liberals can insert your books-on-tape/coloring books/Dick Cheney reading to W jokes here) In theory, democracy in every nation sounds great, doesn't it?

But surprisingly as I listened to the debate, I found myself agreeing more and more with Buchanan on the issues. Example A of an excellent Pat point is below:

MR. BUCHANAN: We brought down the shah and we got the ayatollah. You bring down that Saudi monarchy, you destabilize that regime and Howard Dean, an Arab Howard Dean, is not going to rise out of the wreckage. That country is a nation whose people now admire and respect bin Laden, not George Bush. We cannot make the enemy the best of the good. Tim, look, we have had occasions, the last great crusade for democracy was Woodrow Wilson going across the sea with an army to make the world safer. We brought down all the monarchs and we got instead Lenin and Stalin and Mussolini and Hitler.

Eventually, Buchanan unmasked Sharansky as just another Zionist. Sharansky made it clear that he advocates democracy for everyone...except Palestinians.

Transcript is here.