Thought for the Day

Conservatives are fond of the phrase "give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for the rest of his life." So why is it that a version of that phrase keeps coming back to me when I think about our situation in Iraq? "Give a nation a government, and it'll rule itself for a day. Teach a nation how to responsibly govern itself, and it will rule itself for the rest of its life."

OK, that last bit about ruling for the rest of its life was a stretch, but it certainly seems to me that the Bush administration is doing a whole of the giving and not a lot of the teaching.