Bart Senior wrote:
This is very good news. People everywhere want
freedom. They are entitled to it.


Agreed... with the added note that different people (different cultures)
have varying ideas of what "freedom" means and how to implement it.

Jon Stewart, a liberal, conceded on "The Daily Show"
that Bush's policies seem to be working. His guest
would not admit it. Blind ideology has been proven
to be the failure of liberalism.


Possibly so, although anybody who knows any history at all realizes that
things come & go in cycles. Do you genuinely expect "liberalism" to
vanish from the U.S.? It won't, no more than "conservatism" ever did...
BTW it looks very much to me like real conservatism has had more
setbacks lately than liberalism.

Many liberals can't handle the fact that Bush is
successful promoting democracy in the Middle East,
and will not admit Bush has been proven successful.



Actuall Bart, he has had some successes and some awful setbacks... do
you think that the needless deaths of over 1,000 US servicemen &
women... along with the maiming of 10,000 more... is a "success"?
Especially considering the way the VA is going to treat them now?

The elections in Iraq... especially the discussion of power sharing
among religious blocs... and the probable withdrawal of Syria from
Lebanon, are both great positive steps. But do not forget that they have
been bought at an extremely high price.

.. This will further encourage other
people in the region.

Yes, I hope so.

... Perhaps Iran will crumble next.


Not if we keep threatening them with invasion. The people, including the
moderates who would love to see a constitutional democracy in place of
their fundamentalist theocracy, love their country and will unite in the
face of aggression. Just like Americans did after Sept 11th.

DSK