Posted on 12/27/2005 7:29:45 AM PST by unionblue83
Why still no big-font, front-page headlines screaming, “Millions Vote in Historic Middle East Election!” or “Democracy Comes At Last To Iraq” or “America’s Push for Iraqi Democracy Working”?
Besides the politics of gloom — Bush at home and America abroad are always wrong — and the weariness with the violence, there has sadly been too small a constituency for trusting that Arabs should run their own affairs through consensual government.
Remember the ingredients of the good old American foreign policy in the Middle East — the one that operated before the bad-new days of neoconservatism?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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Why if a democrat had made the exact same decisions as Bush. We would be seeing the chiseling of a new image on Rushmore by now.
OH well. Thems da rules. We knew it all along. Wont change for the forseeable future. Makes us tougher is all.
They haven't even counted the Iraq votes yet. Hanson's cooking his gooses before they've hatched.
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