Tunisia is still struggling (it’s just acquired a new prime minister after the last one departed under a conflict of interest cloud), but today, worry about American political culture is crowding out altruistic concern for the plight of overseas peoples who have never had democracy and the rule of law.īoth Republicans and Democrats are talking up the possibility, even probability, that November’s presidential election will be contested, and both sides are recruiting heavy-hitting legal teams to fight the issue to the death.
Tunisia had just held an election in the hope of becoming a modern democracy of the sort exemplified for two centuries and more by America. This time a year ago, I was standing in the ruins of ancient Carthage just outside the city of Tunis thinking about how civilizations begin and end.
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