Plamegate and Iraqgate get the shaft: normenclature of scandals

[Tonchi]

........it's always right, and a good and joyful thing, to take down tyrants, dictators, the undemocratic and antirepublican. Removing the totalitarian regime from any abilty to continue its oppressions of a people quite heartily sick of them will be the greatest, most marvelous thing we do in Iraq.

Yup, and then Step 2 is "We Die". UG, if only we DID do all those great things you say, but instead we simply manage to create a power vacuum. And then we eventually say "Ooops!" and back out of the room and close the door. The same thing happened in Bosnia-Serbia when the dictator Tito died in the natural course of life, there was no mean SOB to keep them all from killing each other anymore. There are SOME occasions where it just might be prudent to restrain our noble democratization impulses until there are more indications that we understand both the problem, and the solution.