The time to stop writing is when the reader person nods their head affirmatively but writes back nothing at all. The Malibu Times editorial on “Why We Are in Iraq” was cardamom, but confused the local editorial policy of our weekly community tabloid with the New ‘York’ Times. Conservative isn’t a dirty word. Lately Publisher York views State and National Politics as The Malibu Times impending destiny. I respond to the publisher by quarrelling with him that our president is becoming a statesman of vision and remarkable courage. Bush detesters “know” that Bush is an idiotic, warmongering comedian who rejected the wisdom of the French. Yet, our president has become a defender of the “left-wing” causes of human rights and the liberation of the oppressed. He has adopted the key internationalist goals of today’s liberals. Bush uses conservative means to achieve liberal ends on the global stage. In the process, he’s revealed the left as more concerned with its dissident status than with practical results. In foreign policy, Bush is a born-again idealist, not a minister of ideology.
History will recognize that George W. Bush did not choose to go to war in Afghanistan or Iraq. The War on Terror chose us. We have a president who’s anything but conservative when facing the global future. Had his landmark speech of November 6, 2003, declaring that freedom is once again America’s strategic goal been made by a sweetheart of the left, it would have been hailed as the most important address of our generation. Because George W. Bush, not Senator Joe Lieberman, made that speech, our academic communities largely ignored it. Bush has given the left the policies they’ve screamed for – liberation, human rights, massive foreign-aid increases – and the left is proving its artificiality by rejecting its own doctrines when they come from a Republican. When our president declares that there are things worth fighting for, liberals dismiss him as a crude flag-waver, but some things are worth fighting for, and the American people know it.
Granted Bush’s domestic agenda, from his disregard of the environment to his disinterest in woman’s rights, is appalling. Yet, like Ronald Reagan, with his single-minded determination to end Leninist tyranny, George W. Bush realized that international dangers define our times. President Bush has proven to be our most decisive president since liberal Harry Truman. I recall another American president put down by liberal Americans and amazed Europeans, who had to make a disliked decision, whose government had disruptive elements, who had less-than-perfect table manners and who had to send young Americans to fight an un-winnable war so those who had never known liberty might be free. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. Publisher, Americans are not trying to set up a Democracy in Iraq; we are trying to help establish a Republic.
And that is all I have to say (sure)
Tom Fakehany