ter, the debate has yet to be settled. Americans continue to argue about when, how and if, America should export democracy. Currently, the United States and the United Nations are hammering out plans to transfer sovereignty of Iraq to Iraqis. With no weapons of mass destruction discovered, the White House is placing an emphasis on the residual benefit of the occupation- that the US has freed Iraq from a brutal dictator and is helping to resurrect a democracy there.
             The fundamental ethical dilemma sparked by our "conservative" foreign policy is should we as the world's last superpower, use our wealth and might to reshape the world in our own image? As part of the American consciousness, most believe that democracy is the effective antidote to totalitarianism, and that America should aid nations attempting to democratize. The conflict inevitably arises when the exportation of democracy becomes a front for a much more lucrative government agenda, one that taints the idealism a democracy aims to foster.
             In A Republic, Not an Empire, Patrick J. Buchanan argues that America&a
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