Winds of change in the ME (and Togo!... and Europe?).
Also, it seems to be the endgame in Afghanistan ("Things must be going well, because it's not getting much press coverage..."), as Captains Quarters reports:
Will anyone report that the war is over when the Taliban come out of the hills and join the free Afghan people? Doubtful. The American media have all fled the success of Afghanistan and only one or two reporters remain to document Karzai's bold and effective initiative to entice lower-level Taliban to come in from the cold.
The Afghans have taken well to democracy, another example of a region long shortchanged by the bigotry of the West, where people insisted that Afghans could not be trusted with self-determination. Bush proved that democracy transforms, and now even a good portion of the Taliban have seen it for themselves.
Ah, and here's a piece I meant to link a few days ago, largely about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Victor Davis Hanson: Unsung Victories (via LGF):
Americans understandably focus on the hot wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet just as important are the unsung successes that received little praise, and then have a weird tendency to drift off into the collective global amnesia as if they arose from natural, not American-induced, reform.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
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