A big look, because it’s this article in the Arab News.
A couple of excerpts:
Everyone says that this is the first free elections in Iraq for fifty years. That is another lie. There has never been one single free election in the long history of the Arabs ever. This is the first one.
It took the Americans to conduct it and force it down the throats of dictators, terrorists, exploding deranged humans, and odds as big as the distance between the USA and the Middle East.
And this is the second…
In the name of nationalism and “freedom� from imperialism, Iraqi boots crushed Iraqi skulls for so long. When “going home,� such dictators either jetted to Geneva or went to Tikrit.
At least an American soldier has no such home in either place. He or she would simply want to go back to his fried chicken and home baked cookies. In that there is hope and a withdrawal schedule.
G read the whole article. It’s short. Then pray that we see more of this from the Arab world…
OUTSTANDING!
Mostly Cajun links to an article in the Arab news, but fails to quote the best passages.
In spite of everything, the Iraqis voted. They did so with a passion and a seriousness that gives the lie to the cliché that Arabs are not ready for democracy….
Great article. I’m glad to see it.