Well, actually - the biggest difference of all is in the correlation of forces and the terrain . Nobody is allied with Iraq's insurgents who is a credible military/geopolitical rival to the US. Nobody is therefore in a positon to give industrial-strength physical aid and comfort to the antidemocratic forces. Much as the mullahs of Iran might enjoy it, they themselves have a legitimacy problem internally.Seeing people dancing in the streets for having had the experience of officially registering their political judgement at the polls is a sobering experience for muslim tyrants, who must consider how that looks to their own people. Likewise the Dixie Chicks and suchlike are actually pretty thick on the ground - but they have a severe political problem in that it's becoming too clear that Iraq is becoming the most democratic polity in the middle east (Israel always excepted). In the wake of Saddam, Uday, and Cousay (sp), there really is no alternative to the present Iraqi government which an advocate of democracy can call legitimate.
It is of course true that "liberalism" - being nothing more than the manifestation of journalism as the Establishment - is antithetical to democracy. But of course, that is on the QT. Can't give the peons an overdose of truth . . .
It is obvious to anyone with open eyes that the Grey Lady of the New York Times is a liberal propaganda sheet rather than a real newspaper. The examples are legion of its pushing stories twisted to the left. But equally important are stories it refuses to report, that it doesn’t want its readers to know.
On January 26-27, 2005 there was a tremendous snowstorm in the Sahara Desert. Much of the Sahara in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia were blanketed by an enormous snowfall, the worst in over half a century. Here are the NASA satellite photos.http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12699
You would think a snowstorm in the Sahara would be news – but you never heard about it because such a story conflicts with the liberal secular religion of Global Warming.
Here’s another example: The Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline has been pumping oil from northern Iraq to Turkey’s oil terminal at such a rate now that Iraq is back to just about 100% of pre-war oil production. It’s one reason for oil prices dropping off the spike of nearly $60, and heading below $50. But such a story, folded into the larger story that security is improving in Iraq so that the country will be exporting well over 2 million bpd by fall, conflicts with the liberal media con that the world economy is failing and oil is rising because of President Bush (oh, yes – and now, according to Nancy Pelosi, also Tom DeLay!)
Just two small examples why you can understand the world far better by subscribing to To The Point instead of the New York Times…
Questions? Comments? Contact Us.info@tothepointnews.com
From To The Point - http://www.tothepointnews.com