Instant Amnesia

NY Post ^ | Mar. 22, 2005 | Ralph Peters

[Crackingham]

I spent last week in Europe watching acrobats perform. There were no high-wires or circus tents — just left-wing intellectuals contorting themselves into bizarre shapes as they "explained" the changing Middle East. A few Euro-papers raised the possibility that Bush might have been right about some things — only to knock down that notion with excuses so convoluted even the writers and editors couldn't begin to believe them. They were trying, desperately, to save face.

The commonly agreed alibi runs that the Middle East was changing on its own, that Anglo-American actions had little or no effect, that the outbreak of democracy has been on the way for years, that the Arabs did it themselves.

Oh, really? Guess our troops overlooked the warehouses full of multi-party ballots when they took Baghdad.

The Independent, a Brit rag that's been hilariously wrong about Iraq, talks around the icky little details — such as that minor impediment to democracy, Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis were headed for free elections on their own. No reason at all to praise Bush.

Dead Kurds? Not our kind.

Saddam's slaughter of the Shi'as? Can't quite remember, old man.

Torture chambers? My dear fellow, you must mean Abu Ghraib.

Saddam's wars of aggression, the employment of poison gas and the network of mass graves? Talking about that sort of thing simply isn't done. Anyway, the true aggressors are George Bush and his henchman Tony Blair.

One starts to suspect a movement to nominate Saddam for the Nobel Peace Prize.

[TheDon]

The commonly agreed alibi runs that the Middle East was changing on its own, that Anglo-American actions had little or no effect, that the outbreak of democracy has been on the way for years, that the Arabs did it themselves.

This is how history will record this era in the Middle East. Going from what is already said about the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, I have already posted that the above is what would be said about recent events in the Middle East. The Left is so predictable.

[Deetes]

Just like the commies were going away in the ,80's !!! Lefty haters will never admit a Republican success . ever.

[TheDon]

Ralph is giving Mark and the beloved Ann a run for their money.

[jolie560]

Situations like this always make me wonder which history books DID NOT make it thru all the wars, all the book burnings, and all of the fires of the past. What has been passed down to us is what remains from the old world.

What remains is what we know as "history".

[TexanToTheCore]

Historians won't be fooled even sightly by all this wxcuse making. They will record that G.W.Bush changed the Arab world and brought it into the 21st century.

He will be remembered as one of very greatest Presidents and one of a very few people who have truly changed the world.

[Dallas59]

LOL!

[spinestein]

[The commonly agreed alibi runs that the Middle East was changing on its own, that Anglo-American actions had little or no effect, that the outbreak of democracy has been on the way for years, that the Arabs did it themselves.]


Oh, of course. The Tali-ban in Afghanistan just decided to step aside and blow themselves up, coincidentally as the U.S. military showed up, and Saddam Hussein and his cronies just decided to go on permanent vacation (Uday and Qusay going so far as to riddle themselves with bullet holes just to make sure they wouldn't be tempted to return) when the coalition decided to move through Iraq.

What frame of mind can justify thinking up and believing in BS like this? It must be fun to live in such a world where the sky can be a different color every day.

[SunkenCiv]

The winners write the history books -- if they care about history.

[CGVet58]

re: Peters' last paragraph in above column; God bless the french, they're always there when they need us.