7/02/2004 08:15:50 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Anyone who thinks that freedom and democracy are easy, or should be, is delusional. Freedom and democracy is hard. Taking responsibility, and earning the right to take on that responsibility, is difficult.

Daniel Henninger gets it here. For all the criticism of the effort in Iraq, America's transition was as difficult, if not more so. The post-colonial economy was in a state of depression into the 19th century. Inflation was a problem, and the second round with Great Britain almost didn't go so well.

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