Friday, December 02, 2005
The Open Pandora's Box of Freedom!
"Success is less tangible. It is articulated not in the indicative but in the subjunctive: potential threats removed; future wars that don’t have to be fought. It is numbered in the unenumerable: the slow awakening of human freedom; the steady, incremental spread of dignity it brings to people cowed and trampled for decades.
And yet it leaves its mark in tangible ways, even in the turmoil of Iraq. In a couple of weeks, Iraqis will go to the polls in their millions for the third time this year (the exercise of democracy can be habit-forming, can’t it?). This time they will choose a government that will have real power over the direction of the country. It will be a genuine first in the history of a region where medievalist tyranny has enjoyed five centuries of extra time."
Gerard Baker has written wonderfully of the true consequenses of the worlds defeat of Saddam Husein and the forces of evil he represents. This is a must read that comes courtesy of Real Clear Politics.
And yet it leaves its mark in tangible ways, even in the turmoil of Iraq. In a couple of weeks, Iraqis will go to the polls in their millions for the third time this year (the exercise of democracy can be habit-forming, can’t it?). This time they will choose a government that will have real power over the direction of the country. It will be a genuine first in the history of a region where medievalist tyranny has enjoyed five centuries of extra time."
Gerard Baker has written wonderfully of the true consequenses of the worlds defeat of Saddam Husein and the forces of evil he represents. This is a must read that comes courtesy of Real Clear Politics.
