QOTD: 12/02/03

QOTD: Thomas L. Friedman, www.nytimes.com, November 30, 2003
The Chant Not Heard

Sorry, but there is something morally obtuse about holding an antiwar rally on a day when your own people have been murdered and not even mentioning it or those who perpetrated it.

He also added this.

[T]his war is the most important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. The primary focus of U.S. forces in Iraq today is erecting a decent, legitimate, tolerant, pluralistic representative government from the ground up. I don't know if we can pull this off. We got off to an unnecessarily bad start. But it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad and it is a moral and strategic imperative that we give it our best shot.