Saturday, March 05, 2005

What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

Gerard Baker in the Times (the other one):

"All right, all right. But apart from liberating 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan, undermining dictatorships throughout the Arab world, spreading freedom and self-determination in the broader Middle East and moving the Palestinians and the Israelis towards a real chance of ending their centuries-long war, what have the Americans ever done for us?"

He's having fun, but overall a great column.

1 comment:

Mark said...

Dammit Tom, you beat me to the punch. I was going to post the link to that article as well. Oh well, at least I can still say that any column that uses Monty Python so effectively in its argument is worth the read.