[Burkeman1]

Yep- Baghdad and Ryadh are ready for democracy. Did you even read the article?

[ellery]

I did read the article, and chose to address just one of the author's most egregious accusations: that Dr. Rice is lying when she makes the argument about racism.

And there's a difference between a society working through the process of building a representative government (as in Iraq, it can't happen overnight)...and a whole ethnicity not being able to tolerate representative government (which is the EU political view of Arabs).