"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...


"The civil war is already well along. We have no way of knowing if it's
too late until we try a radically different course," said Diamond, an
expert on building democracies who is at Stanford University's Hoover
Institution and is a former adviser to the Coalition Provisional
Authority in Iraq.

How does one become an expert at something that's rarely achieved? :-)