Wednesday, September 24, 2003

 
The thing is, though, that Iraq, and for that matter Iran, are like the old man in "The Shwshank Redemption" who kills himself when released form prison after 50-some-odd years.
Iraqis and others in that region have been treated like animals for so long that they're "institutionalized." I fear there will never be democracy in any of the fringe Middle Eastern nations because the people there don't know any different than the lives they've lived for the past so many years.

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