The Truth About the English

For years, I assumed that every English person I heard speaking was incredibly intelligent. Then one day I realized it was just that English people speak with English accents and it's not the same thing. Case in point, Tony Blair, who helpfully explains that the plan to use Iraq as the first stop in a broader campaign of regional transformation would have gone swimmingly if not for the fact that . . . some people fought back.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/the-truth-about-the-english/42601/