Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

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