On Iraq
I haven’t commented much on Iraq. Mainly this is because I feel that it is too soon to accurately reflect on what’s occurring over there. What is happening there and in the Middle East in general is a revolution, and it would be stupid for me to think that I can say anything about the outcome. It’s kind of like predicting rainfall amounts during a tornado.
Americans – and the Left Wing (which I was once a die-hard member of) in particular – have forgotten that America is one of the few truly revolutionary nations on Earth. Political Revolution involves change – but not the cosmetic type practiced by 3rd world dictators where one junta is changed by another. Revolution by its very definition demands complete change of the type never before seen.
What the US is attempting to do in Iraq and the Middle East as a region is nothing short of revolutionary. We are introducing Democracy into a region that hasn’t known it since the Colonial Era. We are bringing the rule of law and respect for human rights to countries like Afghanistan that have never had these before.
You can rightly be cynical, but think about it. A conservative super-power would respect – no, encourage – the status quo. We would not overthrow regimes and attempt to plant the seeds of human rights and democracy in alien soil.
But America has done just this before. We did it in Japan and Germany – and as so many have forgotten those nations lacked experience with Democracy and basic human rights as well.
So one unaccustomed to the current strains of politics in the West to think that the Left wings in USA and Europe would be clapping their hands gleefully, supporting the US. Funny how that isn’t happening.
The Left has become the new conservatives. The Left now supports the status quo. Any member of the Left that curses the revolution lead by America in the Middle East should rip the Free Tibet sticker off their car, expunge the term “human rights” from their vocabulary and while there, curse the bloody wogs for being completely incapable of governing themselves.
The calls for revolution now reverbrate from the Right. Long Live the Glorious Revolution of Democracy Whiskey Sexy!
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