Thursday, March 31, 2005
Ooops, can I take it back?
Wretchard over at the Belmont Club makes an interesting observation about what is going on over in the Middle East right now. He is typically brilliant but pulls this quip out of his infinite bag of tricks.
- Or put more cynically, the promotion of democracy is a gamble only a country with a missile defense system, control of space, homeland defense and a global reach can afford to take. If you have your six-gun drawn, you can overturn the poker table. In retrospect, the real mistake the September 11 planners made to underestimate how radical the US could be. This does not necessarily mean America will win the hand; but it does indicate how high it is willing to raise the stakes.
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