As a follow-up to our previous post about the bandwagon on this “democracy in the Middle East is spreading and that’s a good thing” avalanche that the NYT started, Small Dead Animals noticed even Jon Stewart jumping on board.

Check out some of his quotes, excerpted by Taranto:

But boy, when you see the Lebanese take to the streets and all that, and you go, “Oh my God, this is working,” and I begin to wonder, is it

Do you think that the people of Lebanon would have had, sort of, the courage of their conviction, having not seen–not only the invasion but the election which followed? It’s almost as though that the Iraqi election has emboldened this crazy–something’s going on over there. I’m smelling something.

do they understand what they’ve unleashed?

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his could be unbelievable!

He’s gonna be a great–pretty soon, Republicans are gonna be like, “Reagan was nothing compared to this guy.” Like, my kid’s gonna go to a high school named after him, I just know it.

this is the most difficult thing for me to–because, I think, I don’t care for the tactics, I don’t care for this, the weird arrogance, the setting up. But I gotta say, I haven’t seen results like this ever in that region.

UPDATE: Turns out lots of other bloggers are also posting on this as well. PoliPundit, BizBlogger, Secure Liberty, Airborne Combat Engineer, Say Anything, Insty, and lots more.

Of course, the underlying theme of the discussion between Stewart and Nancy Soderburg is “there is hope that this might not work.”

Here’s the video.

UPDATE: I didn’t really pay attention to who Nancy Soderburg is, until I noticed the comment on Say Anything’s post. Mike posts:

She was on the staff of Senator Kennedy before joining the Clinton Gore Administration. As number 3 on the staff of the National Security Council, she was at Clinton’s right hand during much of the malfeasance we witnessed during that time.

When she remarks about something going wrong in North Korea, she ought to know. Sec. Albright and Soderberg were among the cabal of America apologists that thought they could buy good will from Kim Jong Il… Didn’t work DID IT!

Now, Bush is cleaning up the mess these people made and all they can do is hope he does not succeed…

Very sad… Politics used to stop at the water’s edge… But power and personal bitterness seems to be more important to these folks than their own nation’s success in making the world a freer, more peaceful place.

And her quotes in the Stewart interview are worth noting:

Soderberg: Well, I think, you know, as a Democrat, you don’t want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don’t want them to have progress.
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Soderberg: It’s scary for Democrats, I have to say.
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Soderberg: Well, there’s still Iran and North Korea, don’t forget. There’s hope for the rest of us.
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Soderberg: There’s always hope that this might not work.

Granted, this is Comedy Central, but she is a former National Security Council member. “Hope that this might not work”??!!! What’s amazing is that this lefty rooting against the US is less of a story than Stewart rooting for America. We are no longer surprised by such anti-US rhetoric from leaders of the Democratic party.

UPDATE: See this post for further context.