Thank you for your gracious response. I am also an American, but I'm now living in Asia. I think the 19 Saudis insanely murdering 3000 Americans one day is what got us to this point. I also think if we Americans were anything like Mohammedans then everyone in the Islamic world would be dead right now due to our superior weapons. But we're not mass killers, so here we are trying to create democracy in undemocratic places. I don't know if it will work.
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Washington must talk about democracy in the Arab world.... as in the Jewish joke about the man who sees a shop whose windows are full of clocks. He enters and tells the proprietor, "I want to buy a clock." The proprietor responds, "I don't sell clocks." "Then what do you do?" "I am a mohel [ritual circumciser]." "Then why do you put clocks in the window?" "What do you want me to put in the window?"
..we sell clocks