Desperate terrorists and snide liberals can't halt birth of new future
(snip) The Arabic newspaper Alsabah conducted a massive, 5,000-person poll in the greater Baghdad area. It shows an Iraqi people much more resolved to proceed than Western media would claim, or "pro-Arab" dictators and their enablers at the UN would wish.
When asked if they'd support postponing the elections, 80% said no. They see that for what it would be: Rewarding the assassins, and delaying Iraq's destiny of self-government. Equally encouraging, 83% of those surveyed believe the elections will take place as scheduled. And only 15% support any kind of negotiations or dialogue with Saddam's old henchmen.
Most hopeful is the answer given by Iraqis about how they will decide their vote: 65% say policies will be the key factor; only 14% will vote along factional lines and 12% along ethnic lines. Party affiliation, a new thing for Iraq, is most important to just 4% of voters.
Mata Musing
I'm not sure what is more shocking. The fact that someone in the media is actually touting that Iraqi's want control over their country, or the fact that it came from a Canadian journalist!
Either way, it's refreshing to read one of the few voices that are retaliating against the MSM and int'l communities' cries of failure at every turn.. an perfect example of which is portrayed by LA Times' narrow-visioned fatalist, Ron Brownstein, who prefers the notion that chaos is smoldering in Iraq.
Instead he says:
U.S. troops are facing relentless violence in a war in which progress has proved as elusive as the enemy itself. Each death and injury tears a hole in a circle of family and friends.
What happened to that "winning the hearts and minds" bit? Is the Iraqi optimism for their election and future not considered "progress"?
Not only is Mr. Brownstein a "me, me, me" kind of analyist, bypassing any mention of Iraqis and their attitudes towards their future, he is evidently a product of a revisionist history curriculum. Perhaps someone should enlighten Mr. Brownstein to the reality that the path to freedom for anyone is not a cake walk, and requires effort, loss, and dedication. Mayhem from the opposition forces, yielding their tyrannical power, is to be expected.
People once said Germany and Japan had no hope of democracy -- it wasn't in their culture, especially Japan's. Sixty years of peace and freedom has proved that pessimism to be a mixture of fear and prejudice.
Even today, people making excuses for China's fascism say that the Chinese culture is inimical to democracy -- though Taiwan has vigorously proved that slander to be a lie. And now the first Arab nation in history is about to have a free, multi-party election, and a lot of old myths are about to be revealed for what they are -- a convenient excuse to prop up and prolong the unhappy rule of a dozen dictatorships.
Evoking history is as much of a lost art amongst journalists as reporting news sans opinion these days. Mr. Levant, when pointing to Germany, Japan and China, stands as one of a rare breed of reporters with optimism, daring to evoke historical similarities in favor of Iraq's future as a self-governing state.
This unusual, positive attitude contrasts strongly not only with the UN, the EU and the "chicken little" MSM, but with other Arab despots, such as Ghadafi. Despite his voluntary yielding of Libya's nuclear proliferation programs after the fall of Baghdad, Ghadafi still believes that oppression, not democracy, is the only thing that will work in Arab countries.
I'm sure the Afghanis and Iraqis will be more than pleased to prove him, and the international community, wrong.
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