Bush's Great Triumph
Some of theBrazilian Jiu-Jjitsu guys here talked about Bush legacy. 30 years from now he'll be remembered for X stuff. The liberals talked about corruption, idiocy, conspiracy, Jews controlling Bush from their low earth orbit satellites, er, I mean neocons, and such. Conservatives weren't much better, citing bad fiscal policy and some other things. (It is all the rage to rag on Bush in conservative circles now... Is this an unconscious attempt to reach across the aisle to moderates now so that the moderates will listen two years from now? I find it strange.)
Anyway, it is all a bunch of crap. Bush will be known as a great Crusader for the West. Not the West of 800 years ago, of Catholicism and Monarch and such, but of the West of today. He will be known as the crusader who brought democracy, capitalism, and yes, LIBERTY, to the Middle East.
And if you're going to pick a single moment that encapsulates all this, I think Saddam's trial is that event. It symbolizes the end of the Arab Strongmen, and the beginning of rule by and for The People. It symbolizes rule of law over rule of the gun. Liberals want the war in Iraq to be about the hell of war, or WMD that were not found, but that's not what it is about. Dave from Dean's world puts it best.
I first read Orwell’s 1984 about 10 years ago, and I’ve re-read it a few times since. Every time, I am newly horrified by his dystopic vision, and newly committed to the ideal of human freedom. But 1984 is just a book: these people really lived Orwell's imagined horror, and worse. That, more than anything else, is why I supported the removal of Saddam's regime and continue to support all efforts necessary to the building of a free and democratic Iraq. War, even war for freedom, is a terrible thing, but generally fluid and short-lived relative to the static, long-lived nightmare of tyranny and oppression.
Read the entire post by clicking here. Read about what a horrible tyrant Bush has overthrown, learn about how he is being given a trial by the people who now rule the country he once terrorized into paralyzed submission.
And give Bush credit. History will.
Anyway, it is all a bunch of crap. Bush will be known as a great Crusader for the West. Not the West of 800 years ago, of Catholicism and Monarch and such, but of the West of today. He will be known as the crusader who brought democracy, capitalism, and yes, LIBERTY, to the Middle East.
And if you're going to pick a single moment that encapsulates all this, I think Saddam's trial is that event. It symbolizes the end of the Arab Strongmen, and the beginning of rule by and for The People. It symbolizes rule of law over rule of the gun. Liberals want the war in Iraq to be about the hell of war, or WMD that were not found, but that's not what it is about. Dave from Dean's world puts it best.
I first read Orwell’s 1984 about 10 years ago, and I’ve re-read it a few times since. Every time, I am newly horrified by his dystopic vision, and newly committed to the ideal of human freedom. But 1984 is just a book: these people really lived Orwell's imagined horror, and worse. That, more than anything else, is why I supported the removal of Saddam's regime and continue to support all efforts necessary to the building of a free and democratic Iraq. War, even war for freedom, is a terrible thing, but generally fluid and short-lived relative to the static, long-lived nightmare of tyranny and oppression.
Read the entire post by clicking here. Read about what a horrible tyrant Bush has overthrown, learn about how he is being given a trial by the people who now rule the country he once terrorized into paralyzed submission.
And give Bush credit. History will.
posted by Harkonnendog @ 2:04 PM
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