it's a little hasty to claim that there's places it just won't work
Yep. I think of Afghanistan and Iraq as experiments to find out if democracy can work there, in the same sense the founding fathers called our republic "the Great Experiment." Ten years from now there's going to be a lot of people saying "I told you so", we don't know which ones yet.
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Date: 2005-03-24 07:01 am (UTC)Yep. I think of Afghanistan and Iraq as experiments to find out if democracy can work there, in the same sense the founding fathers called our republic "the Great Experiment." Ten years from now there's going to be a lot of people saying "I told you so", we don't know which ones yet.