Posted on 03/06/2005 3:33:58 PM PST by RWR8189
Who on Earth wants to be known as the last foe of freedom?
Not Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who Thursday joined a chorus of leaders telling Syrian President Bashar Assad to end his nation's three-decade occupation of Lebanon.
Not Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who abruptly announced plans to hold the first free, multiparty election in his country's history.
Not President Mahmoud Abbas, whose path to Palestinian independence is now blocked less by Israel than by peace-averse militant groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
And certainly not the brave peoples of Afghanistan, of Georgia, of Ukraine, of Iraq, who have raised loud their voices for freedom, often at peril to their lives. Each day, new tremors signal populist demands in lands where freedom has not thrived. This is, then, one of those explosive moments when history is written not in books, but screaming headlines.
Now it is Lebanon's turn, with citizens by the millions heralding a "cedar revolution." Is it possible that Iran, with its repressive and unpopular mullahs, could be next? And in sclerotic Syria, who today would buy Assad futures?
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Strategerie works!
OMG - thats the real headline. I was about to chastize you for messing with it. Wow - Chicago.
Only a Euro could look at democracy as a disease.
IMO, we are at least one significant step closer to: "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." (1 Thes 5:3)
Down with tree oppression! Conifers unite!
Well, at least Col. McCormick has slowed his grave revolutions to below 6000 RPM. The "Trib" has followed most of the MSM over the port side for the last few years. The good Col. would not recognize it.
This isn't a political observation, but rather a human one.
I'm so glad that President Bush's parents are alive to witness what's happening in the world because of their son. How proud they must be.
LOL - "conifers unite" - good one
How many articles like this do we have to see before this sentiment is no longer news? I think we're there already.
If the lamestream media got on it's knees and begged forgiveness for how they've vilified this President and his vision for freedom in the ME, and caused American military deaths in the process, it wouldn't be enough.
Spoken like the true socialists they are! It's like, "Ewww, you stepped in democracy? Wipe your shoes off before you come into THIS haus, buster!"
The NY Times editorial board doesn't seem to mind.
"We Europeans always want to have the world from yesterday, whereas the Americans strive for the world of tomorrow."
Here's a German who gets it.
Today's Hazleton Standard Speaker was filled with Anti Bush AP articles. There was even one about how Disney is crying because their are no foreign tourists because they hate this country because of BUSH. It was pathetic the article I just scanned some of it. One section had all degrading war news including the Italian hostage drama. They still don't get that Bush won by a landslide :)
The liberal Chicago Tribune is playing catch up.
In denial for too long it's:
Get insurance, just in case our doom/gloom predictions will turn out to be duds... just in case.
Yahbut, 41 could not possibly have achieved what 43 appears on the verge of bringing about, being a subscriber to a very different worldview.
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