(Ed. note: This quote was at first mistakenly attributed to Juan Cole because it appeared on his website. Didn’t read it carefully enough.)
The Bush-Cheney administration has surrendered much of Afghanistan to the Taliban and much of Pakistan to al-Qaida. They have turned most of Iraq over to Iran, creating the very danger over which they now threaten another disastrous war; they have strained the U.S. Armed Forces to the point of exhaustion, turned the Defense Department over to private contractors, the Justice Department over to the Republican National Committee, and the national debt over to foreign creditors, while leading a party whose single most basic belief is supposed to be that individuals must take personal responsibility for their actions. And they dare to lecture us on national security? Informed Comment, 9/23/07
And yet nobody seems to be able to stand up against this criminal incompetence. Why? The answer to that question, although we seem incapable of facing it, is that we’ve ceased to be a functional democracy; we are quickly becoming a ceremonial democracy analogous to Britain’s having become a ceremonial monarchy.
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