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March 08, 2005

How Bush is driving the left nuts

In the Independent, Guardian, NBC News, and Fred Kaplan in Slate, are all dealing with a rather difficult proposition, given their stance for the past 3 years: Was Bush right after all?

This is forcing the left into the kind of knots they never really had to deal with after Reagan won the cold war. The reason is that in 1989, when the Iron Curtain began to come down, Reagan was out of office. This was a bit unfortunate for Reagan, because left back then could make the spurious claim that Reagan had little to do with it, and Eastern Europe would have been liberated regardless. Since Gorbachev was around, he got the credit, which, by all rights, belonged to Reagan. So the left was able to get by on the illusion that Reagan had nothing to do with it though Natan Sharansky would beg to differ. In any event, the left had their delusions, and have maintained them to this day, only begrudgingly giving Reagan any due, now that it is 22 years since the Evil Empire speech.

Now cut to 2005. Democratic revolutions and reforms are breaking out all over the middle east. Bush's strategy of overthrowing Saddam and creating a democracy in Iraq, then using big-stick diplomacy to push democratic reform in the greater Middle East, has so far been a success. He's achieved a promise from the Egyptians for multiparty elections, the Lebanese people are calling for the ouster of Syrian troops from Lebanon, and Iraq has held its first truly free elections in its history(for that matter in the history of the Arab world as a whole). What makes this so infuriating for the left, especially the anti-American left, is that all this is happening while Bush is still in the White House. That's the barb on the spear. The correlation is just too strong to ignore. The words of the Bush Inaugural Speech:

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one. From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth. Across the generations we have proclaimed the imperative of self-government, because no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave. Advancing these ideals is the mission that created our Nation. It is the honorable achievement of our fathers. Now it is the urgent requirement of our nation's security, and the calling of our time.

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world

Turns out not to have been overreaching, but in fact, remarkably prescient. And the claims of the left, that Iraq was a quagmire, that Moslems are fundamentally incapable of understanding democracy, that freedom is a province best reserved and only understood by white people, have been shown to be consigned, in Bush's own words, to "history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."

And that is why Bush drives the left nuts.

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