Wanna Feel a leedle more Optimistic than Joe Biden?
ok—bad example
Then check this out:
Your editor returned to Iraq in April and May of 2005 for another embedded period of reporting. I could immediately see improvements compared to my earlier extended tours during 2003 and 2004. The Iraqi security forces, for example, are vastly more competent, and in some cases quite inspiring. Baghdad is now choked with traffic. Cell phones have spread like wildfire. And satellite TV dishes sprout from even the most humble mud hovels in the countryside.
Yep. As I was reading this afternoon at Miserable Donuts: the key to the change in the Ukrane that led to the Orange Revolution was communication. “When you are angry and boiling, but don’t know if anyone else is feeling the same - would you go occupy the central square of Kiev? But if you can call or e-mail all sorts of friends and relatives, you may find you are much less than alone. Not only that, you can get others to go along. And one million or so Ukrainians end up in central Kiev, the regime crumbles and progress becomes possible.”
Looks like the phenomenon is working its magic in Iraq.
[It strikes me; in everything from family/marital dynamics to national scale, the prerequisite to abuse is isolation.]
I am optimistic in the sense that people in crap strewn despotisms can more and more see the US (Australia, etc.), and what life is like when the droit de seignuer types aren’t running rampant.
eloquent, ain’t he...
Back to Karl Zinsmeister:
What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over . Egregious acts of terror will continue—in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerilla war.
There’s more: RTWT
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Ace has some thoughts on this article, too. No loose shit with Ace.
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