July 04, 2007
Happy Birthday, America.
Tonight I'll be lifting a glass of premium gin to those madmen, those geniuses, who thought they could build a new set of States based on Enlightenment thinking. Jefferson, Washington, Paine, Revere, Arnold [for a few years, until things went terribly wrong with him], Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Morgan, Adams [both of 'em], Henry, and Hancock.
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It was absurd. It was ridiculous. It was clear for years that this silly effort—so costly in terms of treasure, and human lives—would fail, and fail miserably.
And yet, it didn't.
I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere, if one cared to look for it.
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What would be wackier is trying the same thing in Iraq. I'm glad someone had the vision.
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at July 04, 2007 11:58 PM (8lL1c)
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Oh, but the Iraqis didn't want democracy; we're forcing it down their throats/at the barrel of a gun. I read that in The Guardian, and the Londoner who wrote the article was quite convinced that the Iraqis preferred things under Saddam.
Don't you Americans read?
Posted by: Attila Girl at July 05, 2007 12:30 AM (VgDLl)
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