New Liberalism

Things are not going well, I'm sad to say. We are approaching a real tipping point, too. We went there to rid the land of Saddam and to promote liberalism in a unitary state. Yet, in our desire to be hands off in the Constitutional process, we have allowed liberalism to be imperiled, and we have allowed the three main factions in Iraq to grow even farther apart.

I'm sure I'll write more on this topic in the future, but it seems almost pointless to focus on the Constitution when the insurgency is raging around the entire country. Security, then liberty, then democracy. That has always been the order of things in the past- in North America, in Germany and Japan and so forth. Why we allowed this process to go forward in Iraq without dealing properly with security is beyond me. If anyone has the President's ear, ask him.