Wednesday, September 09, 2009

The Firm Hand of the Benign Strongman   [Mark Steyn]

The New York Times's Thomas Friedman finally gets to where he's been wanting to go all these years. Everything would be so much better if we could just submit to the benign rule of an enlightened elite:

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can just impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century.

For some reason, the Times thought enough of my "comparison" of America and dictatorships to stick it on page one. It seems a shame to bury their own Great Thinker's thoughts on the subject on page 29.

09/09 09:24 AMShare