Non sequitur - Hamas and Democracy

Submitted by Marc Handelsman (United States), Jan 28, 2006 at 23:08

The Hamas electoral victory and democracy's bitter fruit are a non sequitur. Hamas and democracy are wholly incompatible. Edmund Burke was right, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to nothing."

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