Sunday 4 November 2007

Barbarism to decadence

Gen. Musharraf, having imposed a state of emergency and suspended the constitution in Pakistan, asked other nations whose own form of democracy had evolved over centuries to be patient.

It doesn't take much imagination to realise that he was thinking of the USA when he said that. He could have been harsher with a little research, and mentioned Oscar Wilde's comment that "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between."

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