By no means am I one of those American ‘neo-conservatives’ who’d liberate every tin-pot dictatorship at gunpoint. If some people or other wants to languish under authoritarianism (as the Russians, for instance, seem inclined to do), that’s none of my business. Assuming good digestion, I’d simply echo Russell Kirk, who advised the neocons that

To impose the American constitution upon all the world would not render all the world happy; to the contrary, our constitution would work in few lands and would make men miserable in short order.