Current polls suggest that for the first time American support for the War in Iraq is actually below opposition. Many will cheer this as some sort of ‘turning the tide’, Vietnam style.
I’ve got to say I’m rather impressed. The media has almost managed to turn the tables on the Iraq war - they’ve had a decent run at it. Shame for them that it’s too late.
“Iraq has always had everything that is needed to build a successful economy,” says Heydar al-Ayyari, an Iraqi politician. “We have water and fertile land. We have oil and a hardworking people. What we lacked was freedom. Now that we have freedom we can surge ahead.”
Handover in 3 Days time. Attacks on Iraqi Police Stations down 50% this month and support amongst Iraqis for the interim government astonishingly high. It’s almost as if the Iraqi people aren’t listening to the crazed murderers spilling innocent blood, purporting to be fighting for them. Shame we in the west are.
People can only call Iraq a ‘failure’ for so long, the blanket of anti-war media coverage that has for so long provided safe haven for such foolishness is on the verge of being tugged off. It’s going to start looking more and more ridiculous as a claim as the months wear on from here.
People are right, the tide is about to turn - but not in the direction the anti-war movement would like.
The lives of 700 Soldiers and 11,000 civilians to oust a tyrant who oppressed, gassed and killed his people at a continuing rate of 36,000 a year for over 30 years, replace it with an enlightened democracy, enrobed in Freedom, Peace and Justice (despite continuous assertions as to the impossibility of such action).
Liberty isn’t free; it is a gift we have received from our grandfathers and great grandfathers, who had to pay for it with their lives and to be honest the price we have had to pay in Iraq in exchange for the liberation of 26 million people seems paltry in comparison to what was paid so many years ago.
The day the people of the west are unwilling to pay for their liberty, or the liberty of their fellow man is the day that western civilization truly falls.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at June 27, 2004 02:09 AM | TrackBack