09 April 2008

Bring the sexy and the whisky, but leave the democracy!

(from 19 Feb. 2008)

one of my favorite quotes...
April 21, 2003, Newsweek     "How to Wage the Peace" By Fareed Zakaria

As American armies were sweeping through Iraq last week, the 101st Airborne Division went into the city of Najaf in the south, the heartland of Shiite Islam. A journalist from The New York Times stopped a waving bystander and asked him what he hoped the Americans would bring to Iraq. The man shouted out four words, one louder than the other. "Democracy," he cried. "Whisky. And sexy." Who says the American Dream has lost its appeal?

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