WELL: Andrew Sullivan's Quote of the Day:
""Let's say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some places you couldn't because the violence was too great. Well, so be it. Nothing's perfect in life, so you have an election that's not quite perfect. Is it better than not having an election? You bet," - Donald "Get a life" Rumsfeld, yesterday. Hey, why not a civil war, while we're at it? Nothing's perfect."
All due respect to Andrew (and the usual moment of wondering what they teach people in Government at Harvard), but is he actually arguing that it's better to have no election at all than to only have part of one? Obviously having one everywhere is best, but if your effective, on the ground options are part or none, it seems obvious to me you have to take part.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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