Some Perspective On The GWOT...

The link in the last post shows a lot of the specific, nitty-gritty successes we've had in the Global War on Terror, specifically in Iraq. But Rich Galen of Mullings reminds of some of the more general positive events of the last four years - in response to Chuck Hagel's asinine assessment:

• [Galen] noted the Israeli pull-out from Gaza which wouldn't have happened if Saddam were still funding homicide bombers.
• That in Kuwait and Bahrain not only do women now have the right to vote, but in Kuwait there is a woman Minister for the first time.
• The Lebanese have thrown the Syrians out of their country. The main political party in Syria is the Ba'ath party. Think Saddam's Ba'ath party would have allowed their brothers to the west to have been embarrassed that way?
• The Egyptians are working on their first multi-party elections.
• Afghanistan is preparing for its next round of elections in mid-September.
• Even the Saudis are poking their royal toes into the oasis of reform.
• And the Iraqis are working on their Constitution. According to CNN, this is the kind of thing they are stuck on: The [discussion of the] role of religion has revolved around whether Islam will be termed "a" main source or "the" main source of legislation. Even in the part of the world where haggling was invented, that doesn't appear to be a show-stopper for very long.

Idiots like Hagel need remember how painful a process the United States went through from revolution in 1776 to a ratified Constitution in 1787 - a span of ELEVEN years. Considering the odds, what's happening these days in Baghdad is pretty damn amazing.

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