Lileks on hypocrisy

Lileks has a great bleat today on the hypocrisy of those hoping for failure in Iraq:

If anyone thinks Europe is “three or four more times as democratic as America” he is living in a dream world. A world where Russia lectures us about treatment of Muslim detainees, France is a model of nation-building, the Patriot act muzzles the press, and China is deeply concerned about the sovereignty of conquered nations.

Read the whole thing -- even the bit about his daughter having a shopping cart fall on her...

Posted by Bruce Gottfred at May 28, 2004 09:24 AM | TrackBack