“As for the dangerous situation in [Iraq]: who can be surprised? Did people really believe it would be one Tocquevillean orgy as soon as the Baathists were deposed?”–Andrew Sullivan. I am pretty confident that I have never seen the words “Tocquevillean” and “orgy” in close conjunction before–can my Corner colleagues think of any other examples?
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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