Sunday, February 26, 2006
Never Mind
With the violent reaction to the blowing up of what we call the golden mosque in Samarra slowly waning and this bit of good news, I wonder if somewhere in the back of William F. Buckley's first class mind he's not thinking: "I might have jumped the gun on that one." It's fairly often that one sees an instant pattern that in another instant is not clear at all; the problem is caused by writing something down in the interval.
We haven't lost in Iraq, and just as capitalism is a good idea to be exported, so too is the freedom of a constitutional republic.
Don't despair Mr. Fukuyama. Even the real promise of America took nearly 90 years and 600,000 American dead to correct (at least on paper) and another 100 years to decree by law. If it took us that long, do we really expect perfection in Iraq in under 5 years?
And the conventional wisdom is that the newest generation is impatient, in need of instant gratification. Yea.
We haven't lost in Iraq, and just as capitalism is a good idea to be exported, so too is the freedom of a constitutional republic.
Don't despair Mr. Fukuyama. Even the real promise of America took nearly 90 years and 600,000 American dead to correct (at least on paper) and another 100 years to decree by law. If it took us that long, do we really expect perfection in Iraq in under 5 years?
And the conventional wisdom is that the newest generation is impatient, in need of instant gratification. Yea.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:58 AM 
