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After All, Who Could Forget American Hamas?

But would he concede that elections have so far empowered mainly the radicals? “It’s a part of the process. I think Americans must remember we had some growing pains ourselves. It wasn’t all that smooth a road to the Constitution to begin with in our own country. Democracy is not easy,” he says, coiled and […]

But would he concede that elections have so far empowered mainly the radicals? “It’s a part of the process. I think Americans must remember we had some growing pains ourselves. It wasn’t all that smooth a road to the Constitution to begin with in our own country. Democracy is not easy,” he says, coiled and intense in his presidential flight jacket. ~Paul Gigot

Part of the process?  Yes, of course–after all, every new republic must have had its share of Islamist guerrillas.  Who can forget the New Hampshire Hizbullah or the Green Mountain Mujahideen?  They didn’t call it Green Mountain for nothing, now, did they, Mr. President?  

Now Mr. Bush apparently thinks that disagreements about the Articles of Confederation should be likened to the empowerment of Hamas, Hizbullah and Sadr.  It’s funny–I don’t remember reading about Vermont’s rocket attacks on New York and the sectarian Baptist militias of New Jersey slaughtering the Lutherans.  But then I’m not the “student of history” that Secretary Rice is, so I’m sure she has filled in Mr. Bush on all the necessary details about the shifting of tectonic plates and the birth pangs.  Whether she has familiarised him with the facts of American history remains to be seen.

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