Hugh Hewitt is conducting a blog symposium on why bloggers support the President. There are many interesting responses so far from many different bloggers. Here is mine:
On September 11, 2001, our world was irrevokably changed. The old status quo proved to be too bloody to be allowed to continue. While America slept throughout the 1990s, the threat of international terrorism expanded dramatically. Groups like al-Qaeda and other operated with a sense of absolute impunity, knowing that they could attack American interests and expect no more than a few cruise missiles in response. It was this kind of weak response that led to the attacks of September 11th, the logical next step in a war of escalation that had been going on for nearly a decade under the radar of the American public.
Since September 11, 2001, President Bush has led the liberation of 50 million people from tyranny. Afghanistan has held the first free election in its history. The regime of Saddam Hussein is at an end. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are no longer cooperating with al-Qaeda and are in fact fighting them. There has been no major terrorist attack on US soil since September 11.
President Bush has made some major mistakes. Yet at the same time, for all Bush’s faults, Senator Kerry’s fecklessness on this war is simply unacceptable. Senator Kerry stands for a return to the status quo – a status quo that would leave the world significantly less safe and give terror room to breathe. It comes down to who understands this war and how to win it. Senator Kerry may have his “global test†but he fails the “American test.â€
Ha – ask the Iraqis if they think they’ve been “liberated.”
Note the section on the sidebar called Iraqi Bloggers – you’ll find that what the average Iraqi is experiencing is remarkably different from what the media is saying.
How do you know if the “Iraqi bloggers” are representative of what “the average Iraqi is experiencing”? The fact that we’re talking about the small percentage of Iraqis with computers to blog from is very telling that they may not necessarily reflect the attitude of the other 99% of the population.
The leftist media will never acknowledge the reality of the miracle election in Afghanistan. When they have give it any coverage, they always focus of the whining of the losers who a squealing about “vote fraud.†Come to think of it, it reminds me of the whining of the loser Gore in Florida after he lost the 2000 election, and the inordinate press backing he got. Some things never change.
Remay,
do you have any idea of the former jobs of Mr Karzai?
Some things, indeed, never change!