The column I wrote earlier this week on New Zealand is in today’s Christian Science Monitor. They cut it pretty drastically and I see now there’s a little bit of infelicitous copy-editing in there. Basically, though, the editors did a pretty good job.
It probably wasn’t fair to cram into just the one small column all I had to say about the country. I wish I’d laid out and explored the reasons’s for the country’s general trend toward non-belligerency and a respect for “fairness” quite a bit more. Also, I didn’t even mention the upcoming elections and the things some of my NZ friends said about the roots of the dissatsifaction with PM Helen Clark.
Well, that’s all the things I didn’t say in the piece. You can go read it and comment on the things I did say.