Huge turnout in Iraq today, much larger than expected with a shortage of ballots and very little violence! Yeah! President Bush! Received the remainder of my course work today so may not see me for awhile. MERRY CHRISTMAS/HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!
I saw Joe Biden on Tv talking trash already.. I was waiting for him to start with something like " a fourth score and 7 months ago" or "a small step for iraqis, a giant step for mankind"...He is know for being a freakin Plagerist....... Im i the only one that really hate the abosolut hipocracy of politicians. Im a conservative, so Im sorry if i site a couple of liberals as example, but How can Ted Kennedy tell anybody anything about right and wrong (or swimming for that matter). If you want to know what will make a good mixer than he is your man. What about Sen. Byrd. Can you imagine if a Republicain burned crossed in peoples yard because of the color of ther skin? I know it was a long time ago, but he is obviously insenstive to it because he played a CONFEDERATE GENERAL in a move just short time ago. But WV is the home of a big Coast Guard training facility and a Border Patrol Traing. Lots of Bordes and Ocean in West Virginia. God I hate those guys....all of them...
Although the three election's in Iraq have been good news, great changes are never costless, nor easy. I was reminded of that recently when I encountered a National Guard officer, back in the US on extended leave, after one year in Iraq - evidently somewhere in Al Anbar Provance. This is a Sunni dominated area. After I commisserated with the difficulty of being in Iraq, he said "these people are so tribal." Meaning, that we readily concede a sphere of public good where we grant different public purposes than our own private ones. We, in the West, have absorbed an ethic steming from Jesus' injunction to "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's" interest. For tribal Muslim's, this is still an alien notion: they are inured to zero-sum gamesmanship instead of mediating civic ethics, a realm where the art of compromise is championied, and statesmanship prized above war-making. THIS is - everywhere in the Arab world - the missing social ingredient. THIS is the long-term issue, the central hurdle keeping the Arab world backward. THIS empowers Jihadi to keep making Islam a world-wide threat, making these 1 billion people unfit for our globalizing planet. And the demagogic anti-democratic Dems? Their irresponsible neglect of the above geopolitical realities will keep them from being a majority party in the US for a long time to come.
