“This war has been extraordinarily painful and costly. But democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in a place like Iraq, which has never known any such thing.”
-Thomas Friedman, It’s Up to Iraqis Now. Good Luck.
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also by jim lobe 
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matty
March 10, 2010 @ 3:18 pm
My deep thought of the week: But if the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in present-day Iraq and we call creating Adam out of mud or whatever a virgin birth, Iraq has seen such a thing. Of course, if the “which” is referring to democracy, this theory won’t work – that’s really the only possible problem I can see with this theory.