Abrams: then and now

"" Elliott Abrams, writing in this weekend's Washington Post argued, "Bush had it right and that the Obama administration's abandonment of this mindset is nothing short of a tragedy... we cannot deliver democracy to the Arab states but we can make our principles and policies clear." Yet when he was deputy national security advisor and democratic change came to the Arab world via elections - albeit in the non-state of the Palestinian Authority - Abrams was a key architect of the ill-considered and anti-democratic policy of promoting a putsch against the elected Hamas government. ""