By
Rick Edwards · 05:08 PM · January 30, 2005 ·
Despite six months of unnecessary "diplomatic gridlock" prior to the beginning of the Iraq war, that allowed a stronger insurgency to develop than would otherwise have occurred, Mark Steyn argues that Iraq is coming along fine:
When you consider the behavior of the Shia and Kurdish parties, they've been remarkably shrewd, restrained and responsible. They don't want to blow their big rendezvous with history and rejoin the rest of the Middle East in the fetid swamp of stable despotism. The naysayers in the Democratic Party and the U.S. media are so obsessed with Rumsfeld getting this wrong and Condi getting that wrong and Bush getting everything wrong that they've failed to notice just how surefooted both the Kurds and Shiites have been -- which in the end is far more important. The latter, for example, have adopted a moderate secular pitch entirely different from their co-religionist mullahs over the border. In fact, as partisan pols go, they sound a lot less loopy than, say, Barbara Boxer. Even on the Sunni side of the street, there are signs the smarter fellows understand their plans to destroy the election have flopped and it's time to cut themselves into the picture. The IMF noted in November that the Iraqi economy is already outperforming all its Arab neighbors.
Steyn is clearly in the column of those who believe that Condoleeza Rice may become president someday:
Bush won't abolish all global tyranny by 2008 -- that might have to wait till Condi's second term -- but he will abolish some of it, and today's elections are as important in that struggle as any military victory
The Democrats clearly believe this as well, which explains the hysterical efforts to knock her down by Boxer, Kennedy et al.
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