The one thing about “Democracy,” by which I’m talking about just the simple (ha) idea of allowing people to elect their leaders,is that it sometimes doesn’t go the way you want.
from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010895,00.html
“Western leaders lined up to express their concern at the political earthquake, but in the Arab world, the apparent landslide was greeted with jubilation as a triumph which would inspire other Islamist militant groups committed to fighting Israel and America’s influence in the Middle East.
European Union leaders must decide whether to continue with its £350 million annual payments to an administration which is now, in its charter, committed to the destruction of the Jewish state. “Oh dear, fasten your seatbelts,” said a senior figure on learning of the Prime Minister’s resignation.”
Now? Â It’s time for us to put our money where our mouth is. Â If you want ‘democracy’ in the middle east, if you want the people to elect their government, then you get to deal with the government that is elected. Â Of course we’ve spent many billions of dollars in Iraq trying to make sure this sort of thing won’t happen there, at least not yet (sooner or later, maybe twenty years from now, we can count on somebody we don’t like getting elected).
This is gonna be rough, folks.