Bush Doctrine gives libs new dish to eat — Crow

JWR ^ | 3-4-05 | Jack Kelly

[FlyLow]

The New York Times approached a plate of crow Tuesday, took a few nibbles, then pushed the plate away.

In its editorial on the "Cedar Revolution" in Lebanon, the Times said: "This has so far been a year of heartening surprises — each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance. And for all the negative consequences that flowed from the American invasion in Iraq, there could have been no democratic elections there this January if Saddam Hussein had still been in power."

But the Times wrote about developments in Lebanon as if they were disconnected from events in Iraq.

A leader of the Cedar Revolution, Walid Jumblatt, demurs. "I was cynical about Iraq," he said. "But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Berlin Wall has fallen."

In its concluding paragraph, the Times editorial said: "Over the past two decades, as democracies replaced police states across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America ...the Middle East stagnated in a perverse time warp that reduced its brightest people to hopelessness or barely contained rage. The wonder is less that a new political restlessness is finally visible, but that it took so long to break through the ice."

The Times writes as if communism collapsed of its own accord. It didn't. It was pushed off history's cliff by Ronald Reagan. At a time when liberals were demanding accommodation with the Soviet Union, Reagan recognized communism was as internally weak as it was morally repugnant.

[WestTexasWend]

Great column! This line should be a bumpersticker:
"Liberalism is a can't cant."

[Coop]

Powerful quote:

Liberals underestimate what can be accomplished by courage and resolve because these are not qualities they possess.

[Savage Beast]

"the Times said: 'This has so far been a year of heartening surprises...'"

Surprising to you.

Everyone (including you) would be better off if you Leftists would admit that you are delusional and stupid, that your opinions are worthless, and that you should not be giving advice--to anybody. Then get interested in something harmless, like croquet matches or celebrity fashions--something you might be qualified to do.

Surely you're lucid and responsible enough to understand that some people might actually believe what you say and... No? Well take my word for it. Try making lace doilies or something like that.

[wildbill]

It's absolutely amazing how all the left MSM is now saying that the movement toward democracy in the Mid-East was:

1.Already underway before Bush.
2. Afghanistan and Iraq have nothing to do with it.
3.would have beem achieved without US and Bush policy changes.
4. The changes/democracy movements may not be good or might not last.
5. Whatever good results is not due to Bush, but Bush is responsible for whatever bad results.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

"Liberals underestimate what can be accomplished by courage and resolve because these are not qualities they possess. Liberalism is a can't cant. Every task is too difficult. Every danger is too great. This is why liberals don't oppose dictators until after they've been deposed by the likes of Reagan and Bush. While tyrants are still in power, liberal lips stay firmly glued to their backsides".

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid. Ronald Wilson Reagan 1982

[boxerblues]

Powerful quote:
Liberals underestimate what can be accomplished by courage and resolve because these are not qualities they possess.

If it cant be done without whining they dont know how to do it.

[cyncooper]

But the Times wrote about developments in Lebanon as if they were disconnected from events in Iraq.

A leader of the Cedar Revolution, Walid Jumblatt, demurs. "I was cynical about Iraq," he said. "But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Berlin Wall has fallen."

Jennifer Griffin had an excellent interview that was aired on Special Report last night. I'm not sure if it was with this man, but whoever it was said the same thing (he was a Lebanese leader of the protests): The events in Iraq and President Bush's SOTU speech specifically, were huge elements in their decision to rise up. He really praised President Bush.

[patton]

Why, yes - I agree.