Abu Wabu

"You broke it, you bought it" was a popular leftist refrain a while back, referring to Colin Powell's caution to Bush prior to the rescue of Iraq from Saddam Hussein and Islamic fascism.

"You broke it, you own it", meaning you take responsibility for your actions and decisions, is a more fitting construction, one which should have been explained to the Palestinians who, given the precious gift of a vote in 2006, broke their democracy by electing thugs and murdurers, and now are faced with owning the wreckage.

Andy McCarthy:

We are lectured a great deal about the importance of democratizing the Middle East as, somehow, a strategy to defeat terrorism. I do not want to reargue this issue or make too much (again) of the fact that popular elections have thus far succeeded in empowering terrorists.

My question for the moment is this: Does this democratization ever entail any responsibility? The Palestinian "civilians" were given a choice in 2006, and they chose to elect Hamas — a choice that was overwhelming in Gaza, where the terror organization — having ousted the more "moderate" terror-mongers from Fatah — now rules. If the civilians, eyes wide open, opt to be led by a terrorist organization whose chief calling card is its pledge to destroy Israel (a sentiment shared by a large majority of the "civilian" population), how upset are we supposed to get when the said civilians get caught in the cross-fire that is provoked by the savages they elected?

My answer is not at all. We should instead pray for the Israelis, who understand the obligations and responsibilities of real democracy, and have every right to practice it in peace.