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Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Captain's Quarters: Why Now?

Captain's Quarters: Why Now? (via Glenn):

One question that arises still is, why now? Was this really the work of the Anglosphere? The answer lies in the 150,000 troops currently stationed in Iraq and the will to act that put them there. Does anyone think that Syria would have stood still for a spontaneous demonstration against their puppet government if Saddam Hussein was still defying the UN in Baghdad? Would Hosni Mubarak have suddenly transformed into a democrat without watching the Anglosphere demonstrate a will to act rather than just continue talking tough?

Would the people of the region had the undeniable personal courage to stand up to their oppressors as they have in Cairo and Beirut if they had not seen the Iraqis and their purple fingers, freely voting for their own government, with their own eyes?

Make no mistake. This transformation didn't just happen to coincide with the terms of Bush, Blair, and Howard. Expect the mainstream media to sell that meme in the next few weeks -- how George Bush, especially, got lucky to just happen to be President when all of this happened. Don't buy it for a second. He saw how to change the world and eliminate terrorism over the long haul and more importantly had the political courage to act in that regard.

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Well, they do it all the time with Reagan-Bush and the fall of Communism ... they were just lucky to be there when the Soviet economy could no longer sustain the military and occupation budgets, and when an enlightened man like Gorbachev took the helm. If the US electorate had decided otherwise, the Berlin Wall would have come down under a Mondale or Dukakis administration. Or something like that ...

You're right, of course.

While people are still saying that with regards to Reagan, I wonder if this case isn't so much more obvious that people will still try to make similar claims.

∴ Keith | 1-Mar-2005 12:41pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #7083

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