Posted on 04/11/2006 7:14:11 AM PDT by RepublicNewbie
Amidst all of the news of sectarian violence and the temporary inability to form a government of national unity in Iraq, there is actually reason for optimism. The truth is that the forces of freedom and democracy are making progress.
Now, if we could only get the media to pay attention.
Following the February bombing of one of the Shia's most sacred shrines, the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra, the situation could have careened out of control into full-fledged civil war. But it didn't. In spite of many reports that it had already reached that point, the top Shi'ite leader in the country, the Ayatollah Sistani, urged calm. He realized after the first parliamentary elections, held last December, that the prospects for establishing a unified and democratic government are very promising, and he wasn't going to allow the determined minority of Sunnis and jihadists to wreck this promise for Iraq.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post recently returned from Iraq and gave a mixed review. He said that after the bombing of the mosque in Samarra, "Iraq seemed to be slipping toward civil war, but the Iraqi Army performed surprisingly well." He said that the U.S. should have been better prepared from the outset, but that "the American military is finally becoming adept at fighting a counter-insurgency war in Iraq.
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The internet has changed everything.
If not for the internet, Kerry would be President.
Want to know whats going on in Iraq?
Read a soldiers blog.
The MSM no longer has the monopoly now.
The internet is king.
Long live the king.
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