Posted on 10/29/2004 5:44:21 AM PDT by Quilla
In the 1990s, Afghanistan was allowed to fall to the Taliban and become the global center for the training, indoctrination and seeding of jihadists around the world -- including the mass murderers of Sept. 11, 2001. This week, just three years after a two-month war that destroyed the Taliban, Afghanistan completed its first free election, choosing as president a pro-American democrat enjoying legitimacy and wide popular support.
This represents the single most astonishing geopolitical transformation of the past four years. (Deposing Saddam Hussein ranks second. The global jihad against America was no transformation at all: It existed long before the Bush administration. We'd simply ignored al Qaeda's declaration of war.) But perhaps even more astonishing is how this singular American victory has disappeared from public consciousness.
Americans have a deserved reputation for historical amnesia. Three years -- an eon -- have made us imagine that the Afghan war was easy and foreordained.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What has happened in Afghanistan is nothing short of a miracle. 20 million people were trapped under a brutal, tyrannical regime that was hell bent on exporting terrorism and putting its people back in the 1st century (so they could better understand islam). In less than three years, they went from that to having a woman candidate for president getting a significant portion of the vote in an election where women could vote! And George Bush should get all the credit...
Hi Quilla! That's why I frequently love some of the taglines you see around here. To wit:(kudos to the freeper that has it)
The Clintons PARDONED more terrorists than they ever captured or killed!
This election comes down to a choice between one man's evolution and the other man's resolution.- C. Krauthammer
Amen.
I especially enjoyed the final paragraph. Here's a snippet:
Whom do you want as president? The man who conceived the Afghan campaign, carried it through without flinching when it was being called a "quagmire" during its second week and has seen it through to Afghanistan's transition to democracy? Or the retroactive genius, who always knows what needs to be done after it has already happened --
Millions of Americans are going to vote for the man they think will give them personally the most goodies. I'm afraid they will never listen to Mr. Krauthammer or any of the other voices crying in the wilderness. The entitlement mindset is alive and well, I only hope it doesn't prevail.
Mr. Krauthammer is absolutely right, as are msot of his columns.
And if Kerry gets in, be ready for lots more dominoes to fall.
BTW, I think that is Peach's most excellent tagline.
Thanks for remembering my tagline, Quilla! I'm impressed with your memory as mine is, well, not great :-)
Tagline is ready to go for when/if Her Shrillness ever runs.
Bush bump.......
bttt
Since liberals cannot win, or even thoughtfully debate, in the "arena of ideas", we are left with - all we hear - are the sounds of their colon-clenching (lol!) screaming hate.
I do have faith in the American people; that it is plain for most to see, yet it still concerns me that they are resorting to THEFT. The violence is one thing, yes. The MSM daily barf is another. But it is the real possibility of disenfanchisement through theft and/or judicial caveat that really has me on pins 'n needles.
Were it not for liberals' hatred, and willingness to destroy our system on the altar of their lust for power, this would be a landslide for conservatives.
I pray that it is, even so.
The fact Kerry isn't 40 points down in the polls by this time is scary!
bump
Isn't it time to send John Kerry home, that is Teresa's home, not our home the White House?
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