Bringing democracy to the Afghans and other benighted peoples

Walt hopes Brian Gable, editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail, will take our occasional use of his cartoons as a sincere compliment. That's what it's meant to be. Today's offering fits so well with our recent posts: "Canadian government could fall over election dirty tricks" and "Why the Afghans keep killing Americans".


Here we are -- "we" meaning Western troops, NGOs and assorted do-gooders occupying Afghanistan, Iraq and other sandpits -- trying to teach the ignorant Muslims the "right way" to do things. I'm talking about running elections, which we can't even do in our own countries without resorting to dirty tricks, cheating, and suing one another to get the result we want. (Hello, Dubya!)

About the only thing we don't do is shoot opposition supporters. At least... not yet.