"Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." -Mark Twain
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"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet." |
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Title: "Middle East Democracy: Hamas?"
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Notes/Comment From Sam: |
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 | Everything seemed to be going well in the Middle East following (somewhat) legitimate democratic elections in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt (kind of), and Saudi Arabia (again, kind of). But with Hamas-- defined as a "terrorist organization" by the State Department-- winning 76 of 132 seats in the Palestinian Authority elections, we are reminded that representative government is just that, and sometimes the people like officials and governments that we do not. Hamas, after all, won the favor of the Palestinians in a campaign that boasted their sucess with domestic and social issues (like welfare) and criticized the malversation of the secular Fatah party. | |||
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