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The Jakarta Post also quoted East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta as ridiculing claims that East Timor would not be viable as a country on its own: "One does not have to be an Einstein to do slightly better than those incompetent, lazy, corrupt bastards who managed our country for 23 years.
But the fact is that there is a recognizable problem or a collection of problems, and ridiculing them is nothing more than a defensive gesture stemming from our own discomfort at facing them (if I may be allowed a little armchair analysis of my own).
George Will has written column after column sermonizing about First Amendment excesses, lecturing sternly about the difference between "speech" and "action," and ridiculing the idea that (for example) flag-burning sends a political message and therefore qualifies for First Amendment protection.
I'd bet that each famine-wracked region in history had at least one person like Landsburg who had been predicting 2 percent economic growth for centuries and ridiculing anyone who tried to consider the consequences of their actions.
Francis Fukuyama, in the Wall Street Journal , and Thomas Friedman, in the NYT , have columns today ridiculing this view.