Thursday, December 15, 2005

Jeff Jacoby: Why they Vote

''One anecdote from Mosul," said General Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the National Defense University earlier this month. ''There was a police recruiting station. Forty young men lined up to sign up to become Iraqi policemen. A vehicle-borne IED explodes -- kills or badly injures 12 of them. The next day, the 28 remaining return to the same spot to sign up to be policemen.

I cannot do justice to Mr. Jacoby's concise column by snipping para's. It's got to be read in its entirety.

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