Samtheman - agreed with your point entirely. I also took this from the article. It would probably take .00005 seconds for me to Google a billion references in the NYT to how nation building doesn't work (when conservatives do it), but I'll let that slide.
What really frosts my @$$ is these clowns saying things like how WE and the Europeans need to patch back together a democratic government. The article starts off saying that the election was clean and fair. IT IS A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT BY DEFINITION, YOU LIBERAL ASS CLOWNS. Which brings me full circle, to the sub title of the article - the NYT is clueless.
But you know. A communist never gives up. Every argument is a tool. Every situation is an opportunity. Nothing matters but the over-all goal: advancing the spread of communism.