Like a mantra that’s been drummed into their little heads, they repeat the same hogwash about America’s being involved in a quagmire, even though the only quagmire exists between their ears. The facts are that Saddam Hussein is history and Iraqi’s citizens are making history by forging a democracy where, just a short time ago, that seemed an impossible dream.
Up until a couple of years ago, I thought one of the great symbolic acts in human history was when Denmark’s King Christian X rode his horse through the streets of Copenhagen during World War II, while wearing a Star of David in order to display Danish defiance of a Nazi edict that every Danish Jew wear the Star on his sleeve. I have since discovered that, although the king was apparently a decent and courageous man, the story is apocryphal.
Therefore, in my catalogue of inspiring events, that has now been replaced by the sight of countless Iraqis, at the risk of being murdered by Islamic terrorists, lifting their purple thumbs to the sky. There are precious few moments in life when people do something that is so extraordinarily moving that they remind us, at least for a little while, that we are something more than well-dressed apes.
While the pundits at CNN, MSNBC, the three major networks and the New York Times, insist that things couldn’t possibly be worse for 25 million Iraqis, a Time magazine poll recently disclosed that 70% of them say that, obviously thanks to our intervention, their lives are now good. Frankly, I doubt if that high a percentage of Americans, who don’t even bother voting if it’s drizzling outside, would say as much.