Mark Steyn, columnist extraordinaire, writes up a story of prescience—and of his prescience of days gone by. It’s about all that freedom and democracy that seems to be breaking out in the oddest places thanks to liberal arch nemesis President George W. Bush, full-blown conservative Republican.
I’ll break into the middle of it with this one paragraph for you, but you’ll be reading the whole thing anyway. [5 minutes]
[…] Why is all this happening? Answer: January 30. Don’t take my word for it, listen to Walid Jumblatt, big-time Lebanese Druze leader and a man of impeccable anti-American credentials: “I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Berlin Wall has fallen.”
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