"Iraq isn't fast food"

Reflecting on T. F. Boggs comments on the ISG report, I realized what he is saying in the first weeks of the war. Democracy isn't fast food. We didn't accomplish it in three or five years on a schedule, and we had our own civil war before our own union was assured.

The whole purpose of the ISG, it's clear, was to parrot the Democrats' and the medias' criticisms and justify the argument that Iraqis just aren't capable of making democracy work. To me that's bigotry, pure and simple, and ugly Americanism at its worst. The real issue is the cost, but that's only an excuse for abandoning our own values.

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