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| VDH: How Far We've Come. Let's not forget. |
| 2004-12-03 |
...Do we now remember the impassable peaks, the snowy haunts of the Taliban that were too high for us, or Kabul, the dreaded graveyard of all imperial expeditions? It was just a few months ago, it seems now, that we were admonished about the fury of retaliation to come for daring to fight during Ramadan, the impossibility of working with a nuclear and Islamic Pakistan, and the Wild West nature of Afghanistan's tribes so impossible to forge into the stuff of consensual government. And it was worse still than all that: the cries on the hard left of millions of refugees to come; the European warning about thousands of dead from indiscriminate American bombing; the need to adjudicate 9/11 by jurisprudence rather than arms; and the crazy conspiracy theories of pipelines, neo-cons, 'Jews,' Likuds, and CIA plots... |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Especially the TV Series.... Booo Doo Doo due due due due due due due due! Da da da da da dada da da da! I saw one Me-109 shot down 311 times. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-03 3:43:41 PM |
| #3 12 O'clock High always makes me sniffle. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-03 3:41:27 PM |
| #2 Yet despite them all, and after this bloody month of November, here we are now on the eve of elections — the most unlikely of all events in the last half-century of civilization. Just think of it: In place of the past Hussein mass murdering and the present ogres of Fallujah, we are to witness an effort to jump-start democracy in the heart of the caliphate of old, right between the world's worst two governments in Syria and Iran, amid treacherous folk like the Saudis, Jordanians, and al Jazeera cheering the insurgents on. How did we come this far and get so close, when the unprincipled such as Jacques Chirac shunned the once-wounded democrat Allawi and sent his plane instead to fetch the murderer Arafat — a profiteer in the guise of a 'leader' who hand-in-glove with Saddam Hussein made France billions in Iraq and then lectured about morality to those who slammed the cash register drawer on his stealthy hands. How could we ever contemplate the chance of elections when the Saudis, the Syrians, and the Iranians sent millions of dollars and thousands of jihadists to stop it all — lest the virus of freedom spread? The man can write. However, I disagree with one thing. He said they can watch from the sidelines as it steamrolls past them. I'd say let it steamroll right over the top of them. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-03 1:19:20 PM |
| #1 I typically hate to disagree with VDH, but I don't think there's any "forgetting" going on here. I think it's a whole lot of eyes closed shut on details that completely contradict the cherished world-views of the lefties, UN sycophants, and all the various moonbats who march in WTO protests. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2004-12-03 1:02:51 PM |