Arrayed against freedom.
Victor Davis Hanson lists the reasons why the nation-building effort in Iraq is widely opposed from Arabs to Europeans to establishment leftists. (*) It is striking that so many who cry so loudly for liberty could have so little concern for the people of Iraq.
It’s funny that the madman Howard Dean, Democratic contender for the presidential nomination, is thought by elite opinion to be more of a humanitarian than George W. Bush. To the consternation of proudly self-important, freedom-loving American dissidents, their man from Vermont would have the Iraqi people in chains and torture machines even today, if only to help ensure a Democratic victory in 2004. As an independent leftist, I am disgusted.