“They need a government of national unity… Leaders must agree to a decision-making process that gives political minorities confidence that that the majority will share power and take their legitimate concerns into account… Leaders need to govern from the center, not the ideological extremes.”
No. It wasn’t Jefferson or Washington or Madison. It was Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to Iraq, speaking of the founders of the new Iraqi government. (L.A. Times 2/12/06)
Have we lost over here what so many died to build over there?
