NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
“Listen to the American hawks after a few glasses of wine, and you might be seduced into thinking that after overthrowing Saddam Hussein we’re going to turn Iraq into a flourishing democracy.
But I’m afraid it’s a pipe dream, a marketing ploy to sell a war. We haven’t even been able to nurture full democracy in modern, bustling Kuwait, where women still cannot vote, or in Saudi Arabia, which is more egalitarian