That's the quote I focused on as well.
The same sceptics of the war, the same sceptics of the elections taking place, are the same skeptics insisting Iraq will adopt an Iranian Theocracy.
Why? Maybe they are hoping Iraq will follow suit so it counts as failure for Bush. Perhaps they are afraid of the unknown. Perhaps they are prejudiced against people of a different race and a different religion than they are accustomed.
My response is that in the past few years alone we've seen the power of Liberty. It's worth the risks, it shouldn't be subject to political calculation and importantly I recall no clause in the Bible stating peoples located in the Middle East were incapable of peaceful free governance because their religion was different than the majority in this country.
I'm hopeful. I'm heard not one reasonable argument for why I shouldn't be hopeful. Only resentment, fear and prejudice in its place. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that they will protect the freedom they've newly experienced more than some in this country that seem to want to turn that freedom over to the will of the U.N.
No it's not a photo copy of ours,and it shouldn't be,but it has some amazing likenesses in it's Articles.
All courtesy of those who serve to keep us free.
Oh, yes, we have. And it should be humbling for Americans who have had it so long we have no collective memory of why we wanted it so.
The Germans and Japanese have forgotten that we gave them the same chance, and maybe some day in the future, these countries will also forget. But that's a mark of success, in a way. Being secure in freedom is how everyone should live.