Here’s an excellent column written by columnist Salim Mansur for the Toronto Sun.
Barbarians are at the U.S. gates
By columnist Salim Mansur—For the Toronto Sun
Mon, October 4, 2004George Bush became the 43rd American president in the 2000 election by winning the all-important electoral college vote while losing the popular vote.
America’s founding fathers designed a republican democracy where the potential passion of the people is tempered by the sobriety of electors representing the various states.
The 2000 election confirmed the wisdom of the founding fathers. It is as if providence saved the republic by electing a president with great moral reserve to defeat the evil threat of his time.
Few knew the mettle of Bush in 2000. Fewer expected his presidency to be of greater consequence than the one he was succeeding.
But 9/11 was a transformative moment, and a nation could only rise to meet this latest confrontation between good and evil if its leader understood his responsibility unambiguously.
Bush recognized 9/11, with its long antecedent, for what it was—a new version of the old and recurrent assault that barbarians make on civilization, requiring the sort of stamina civilization needs to protect itself and destroy its enemy.
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But like them, Bush possesses the one big thing needed: resolve and clarity of purpose, when civilization itself is placed in peril.
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His opponent, Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry, instead wants to have a summit of Middle Eastern leaders—many of whom are themselves the alchemists of Islamist barbarism …
Mansur is a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario
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