Glenn Greenwald has a post up that includes a partial transcript of Bill Moyer's session with Bill Maher on last night's Real Time. It includes this from Moyer on the subject of American "nation building" in Afghanistan.
If you're an Afghani and look up and see Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California legislature coming to build your nation, you're going to run - you're going to put up a No Trespassing sign.
Sadly, there are too many Americans who wouldn't really get why that line is both true and funny (in a painful sort of way), and of course they're not the only ones. I mean, rich North Americans know what everybody else needs, right?
Moyers is a treasure. Maher is mostly good on politics too, although he can come out with really raw sexist smart-mouthery. Bitter -- I think he's bitter about something.