Reading for Democrats

...and reading for our partisan, defeatist media, also, which has the attention span and historical sense of a two-year-old.

Arab Liberals Discuss Fifth Anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom

It's as simple as this: Bush has put Arab liberalism on the right side of history. Or, better said, he's moved history to their side. A corner has been turned. It is impossible to over-state what the long-run importance of that will be, and far beyond the Arab world.

Accomplishing this has required doggedly persisting against the implacable opposition of an assemblage of political panderers, those unwilling or unable to focus on anything beyond their own short-run political fortunes, and persisting against the relentlessly hostile campaign waged by their academic and media allies.

If there is any justice, Bush eventually will be recognized as the guy who had it right from Day One and never wavered, despite an intense and unceasing shower of personal vilification from every corner of the left-liberal peanut gallery. But I suspect that Bush would be the first to say that personal vindication is the least important thing. It will be enough if historians eventually notice that when it came to meeting the civilizational challenge of radical Islam, not a single plausible alternative to democratization of the Arab world was ever offered by any critic. Not a single one.

Good for you, GW. Good for you.

Byron