Posted on 12/19/2005 3:06:06 AM PST by liberallarry
Though Iraq has now held the freest election in Arab history, conventional wisdom in Washington and the Middle East still dismisses the Bush administration's hope that its military intervention will catalyze democratic change around the region...
That's one of the perverse effects of the war: Amid all the noise of suicide bombings, talk of a quagmire for U.S. troops and a sectarian conflict that could lead to Iraq's disintegration, most people haven't noticed that in the rest of the Arab Middle East, the political momentum of the past year has been . . . distinctly democratic....
any honest examination of the Arab world shows that the transformation Bush called for on the eve of the war in 2003 got closer in 2005.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I find it extremely racist for the Democrats to keep saying the Iraquis are not worth fighting for.
You mean... EVERYWHERE... except FOXNews.
It seems to me that there's a cycle around the elections where the MSM reports start sounding more favorable followed by a period of intense pessimism.
"A recent survey by Brookings Institution scholar Shibley Telhami found that 58 percent of Arabs outside Iraq said the war had produced less rather than more democracy."
SO, What you're saying is saddams goverment was democratically elected and everyone had a vote free from fear of retaliation?
HAHAHAHAH! That is so FUNNY!
Political correctniks have turned this word into the unltimate insult and excuse for censorship.
Despite all the abuse and baloney, there are such things as group identity, group consciousness, culture and history...and shared genetics. It's as legitimate to notice and comment on these things as it is to comment on individual characteristics.
Fox News hasn't been optimistic? Now that's surprising.
They actually say that America is not worth fighting for...or at least that was what Mother Sheehan was told to say.
I think Johnny meant that the description "left-leaning" included all networks except FNC.
...because we, your media, have ensured that positive stories are ignored or buried while any and all negative stories are emphasized beyond belief.
You are absolutely correct, but you have stopped short of the acknowledging the reality that most of us here are all too well aware. This reality is the hypocrisy that underlies PC, and the fact that the only accusations of racism that are taken seriously are those directed at white conservatives. In the PC world that most liberals live in, no black can ever be racist. No Democrat can ever be racist. No woman can ever be sexist.
If you see it differently, then please explain why Senator Byrd has never paid any political price whatsoever for uttering the forbidden "N" word twice (the second time for emphasis) on national TV, or for his involvement with the KKK.
And then explain why Trent Lott was crucified for a joke with (debatably) racist overtones told at a private party.
Your reaction to the other poster was typical of the liberal PC mindset. You think it's fine to question the fitness of middle eastern people (Arab or otherwise) to govern themselves based on their "culture and history" and "shared genetics". Imagine the outcry if a white conservative suggested that "shared genetics" had any bearing on the ability of a black African people to govern themselves!
Indeed.
I don't.
I agree with you on your definition of racist.
However, when I used the word in reference to the Democrats' attitude about Iraquis not being worth fighting for, I meant it as the 'ultimate insult.'
Just shocked that this article got into that fishwrap of a paper.
For too many democrats, it's not that Iraq wasn't worth fighting for, it was that this war helped Israel and THEY are not worth fighting for.
Gee... what a coincidence...
I guess there's hope for you!
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