Posted on 02/06/2005 9:49:43 AM PST by UpHereEh
Another interesting Columnist from Calgary Sun...
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ezra_Levant/2005/02/07/922790.html
Excerpt:
This is not a column about the Iraqi election. That has been written.
This is a column about how that election debunked the false moral authority carried by the Elmasry's of the world. This is about asking real Arabs, real Muslims, for the first time ever, to choose between freedom and Islamofascism, and getting the answer that optimistic Westerners had all hoped for.
This is about the last drops of the UN's moral authority finally evaporating, a UN whose sole contributions to Iraq's future had been to embezzle billions from the so-called "oil for food" program, and then to stall the toppling of Saddam as long as possible, and then to natter at the liberating coalition for two years.
This is about the Canadian and American left's haughty sophistication about "nuance" and "multilateralism" being proved nothing more than a parlour fashion -- that the coalition, led by a U.S. President they regarded as a cowboy simpleton, actually understood Iraq better than they did, and, more importantly, did something about it, at lightening speed, with a better result than anyone had hoped.
This is about the delegitimization of every remaining Arab dictatorship, which is to say, every other Arab government. And it is about revealing the Elmasry's of the world as being anything but spokesmen for the true hopes of Arabs and Muslims.
That's what this is about.
Ezra Levant is publisher of the Western Standard
Beautiful pics of Canada (post 51). Thanks for posting! I'll go check out those links.
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