Friday, May 04, 2007
More Optimism [Andy McCarthy]
Optimism is a major problem if it causes one to discount huge difficulties (see, e.g., the sunny assumption that democracy will quickly take hold in the Muslim world because we are all supposedly hard-wired to love freedom) or becomes an excuse to avoid confronting huge difficulties (see, e.g., the sunny assumption that diplomacy will make Iran stop building nukes, stop promoting terror, stop destabilizing Iraq, etc.). I am not an optimist in these regards, and I would prefer if my next president isn't either.
05/04 10:20 AM
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