Tuesday, May 22, 2007

So the US constructed an exemplary democracy in Iraq, and another one in Afghanistan (not to mention the Lebanese democracy that is being perfected before your eyes now): "The most outspoken female MP in Afghanistan has been expelled from parliament after saying proceedings had descended to a level "worse than a zoo". The views of Malalai Joya, in a television interview, outraged fellow parliamentarians, who immediately voted to suspend her from the house for the rest of her five-year term. Some even demanded that she should be brought before a court for defamation and stripped of the right to stand again as a candidate."