From November 20 issue of Time:

I also am in favor of toppling dictators, establishing democracy and watching it spread painlessly throughout every region where there is no experience of it.  Not only that: I am in favor of turning sand into ice cream and guaranteeing a cone to every child in the Middle East.  But you can't turn sand into ice cream.  That is not a defect in the execution of the idea.  It is a defect in the idea itself.

-- Michael Kinsley