If we really had been in the grip of "idealism," we'd be deep in Chad and Burma and Darfur. We are not. We are instead trying to sustain fragile democracies in three strategically important countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon -- that form the geographic parentheses around the principal threat to Western interests in the region, the Syria-Iran axis. Full Story »
Posted by Hans Suter
After having listened to Chris Lydon's podcast on radio opensource about the Iraqi refugee problem (read Nir Rosen in the Boston Review about it) I remember Krauthammer's "We are instead trying to sustain fragile democracies in three strategically important countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon -- that form the geographic parentheses around the principal threat to Western interests in the region, the Syria-Iran axis." Can there be a more shameless misrepresentation of reality ? I don't think so.
