GOOD COMMENTARY

Societies cannot live on mass anger. Nor is there wisdom in asking foreign liberators for instant remedies to a society slowly and systematically poisoned by political terror.

There are burdens for America in Iraq. But the real burden rests with Iraqis.

Around them, there are neighbors who wish them ill, who prophesy for the new Iraq failure and heartbreak and a return to the ways of despotism. There are Arab regimes eager to prove that tyranny is the only workable arrangement in Arab life.

It is up to the new leaders of Iraq, and to the communities from which they hail, to prove that liberty and a modicum of order are not alien to the soil of those lands.