Freedom will Boomerang

The January 30th election day in Iraq can be equated to the hole in the dike. Let us reframe this children's tale in this way; the dike is the totalitarian and autocratic network of despots and dictators with their supporting cast of terrorists, insurgents, and nihilists; the sea being held back is the human desire for freedom. The plans for the Iraqi election caused a breach in the dike and this created a threat to the status quo. Non other than Hans, the would be hero, shows up to find a trickle passing through the hole in the dike. In this little analogy Hans represents the brotherhood or coterie comprised of the academic elitists, the left wing of the Democratic Party/Hollywood, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, CBS, and NPR. Like the mighty Mississippi River the oppressed people can only be contained for so long. The left wing naysayers said to delay the Iraqi elections because the people were not ready. Since the election the hole in the dike has opened to a force which will be very hard to staunch. And Hans is having 'cognitive dissonance' over the events which have transpired.

From Ukraine to Lebanon

Winds of Change

Free at Last Through an Arab-Western Joint Venture

Middle East Side Story

Winds of Change Stir in Mideast, but Their Direction Is Unclear

Some Arabs See Beginning of New Era

Syria to Pull Troops Out of Lebanon in Months -Assad

2,000 Demonstrate at Iraqi Bombing Site

Minds are Changing

Mideast Climate Change

Tel Aviv Bomber's Family Shunned

Managing a Mideast Revolution

About that Quagmire

The Good News Graveyard

Lebanon 'victory' spurs Syrians to demand a voice

Saudi Shiites Look to Iraq and Assert Rights

"But as an American..."

See the link directly above where I borrowed the 'cognitive dissonance' phrase from Jon Stewart of the Daily Show. You will be surprised to find even a New York Times and the British Times editorials among the selections above which I found extremely gratifying.

The Iraqi people will experience the boomerang effect in this way: eight million people defied the odds and voted in a true democratic election for the first time in their lives, which has had percussions throughout the region. The success of democratic movements among their neighbors, i.e., Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, will embolden the Iraqis to turn against and squeeze out the terrorists who will have to find a new rat hole in which to hide...if they survive.

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