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Larry Kudlow has a riveting column about the Iraqi elections and Bush's Inauguration speech. He relates how Bush is a lot like Reagan and he castigates Peggy Noonan for her criticism of Bush’s speech. The Liberals hated Reagan too.
“Let Reagan be Reagan,†was the cry of that great president’s loyal supporters. How is it that Peggy Noonan is now deciding, “Don’t let Bush be Bush�The reality is the Iraqis will be risking their lives in pursuit of freedom when they go to the polls on Sunday. Do people think the Iraqis in the Baghdad area -- knowing full well they may be killed by a car bomb while trying to cast their votes -- are more or less incentivized to vote after listening to Bush’s speech? As Tony Blankley writes in the Washington Times, we have seen such courageous pursuit of freedom before -- people throwing safety to the wind in El Salvador in 1984, in Cambodia in 1993, in Algeria in 1995, and of course in Afghanistan only a few months ago.
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Bush’s inaugural vision will be proven right. His speech will be vindicated, and along with it will come a foreign-policy triumph of moral idealism, human rights, and freedom over the cynical “realist†view that after all we have seen in the past 25 years we can still do business with dictators and despots in the name of stability.
Click the above link to read the whole column. I think you'll find it a good use of your time.
Posted by Ted at January 29, 2005 9:33 PM