Jeff Jacoby, a Boston Globe Columnist, wrote today that up in the great white north, where nothing matters anymore, Canadian liberals—especially those in the media—got it wrong on George Bush, are still wrong, and I would add that they seem intent on staying wrong.
Normally in a rush to surrender and to bring the troops home, and to demand an exit strategy no matter what the outcome, liberals in Canada seem intent on fighting this one on—to what end nobody really knows. Maybe they’re trying to bore us to death.
Nonetheless, I’m just sure that after the liberals in Canada figure out that even European media types are praising President George Bush and the Bush doctrine, which all good conservatives have been doing since day one, the Canadian liberals will climb on board too. They’re just a little slow. Catch up, liberals!
“IT IS time to set down in type the most difficult sentence in the English language. That sentence is short and simple. It is this: Bush was right.”
Thus spake columnist Richard Gwyn of the Toronto Star, author of such earlier offerings as “Incurious George W. can’t grasp democracy,” “Time for US to cut and run,” and, as recently as Jan. 25, “Bush’s hubristic world view.”
The Axis of Weasel is crying uncle, and much of the chorus is singing from the same songsheet.
Listen to Claus Christian Malzahn in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel: “Could George W. be right?” And Guy Sorman in France’s Le Figaro: “And if Bush was right?” And NPR’s Daniel Schorr in The Christian Science Monitor: “The Iraq effect? Bush may have had it right.” And London’s Independent, in a Page 1 headline on Monday: “Was Bush right after all?”
Even Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and an indefatigable Bush critic, has learned the new lyrics. “Here’s the great fear that I have,” he said recently. “What if Bush . . . has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view will not sustain itself and I may . . . implode.”
For those of us in the War Party, by contrast, these are heady days. If you’ve agreed with President Bush all along that the way to fight the cancer of Islamist terrorism is with the chemotherapy of freedom and democracy, the temptation to issue I-told-you-so’s can be hard to resist.
“Well, who’s the simpleton now?” crows Max Boot in the Los Angeles Times. “Those who dreamed of spreading democracy to the Arabs or those who denied that it could ever happen?” On the radio the other day, Rush Limbaugh twisted the knife: “The news is not that Bush may have been right,” he chortled. “It’s that you liberals were wrong.” The gifted Mark Steyn, in a column subtitled, “One man, one gloat,” writes: “I got a lot of things wrong these last three years, but, looking at events in the Middle East this last week . . . I got the big stuff right.” [… read the rest (2 minutes)…]
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