Roger:

In their rabid hatred of Bush the chattering classes of the left are forced to bring back the real politic of Kissinger and Nixon of “If he’s our dictator, then he is ok to us.” Of course Bush is not going to change the world in a day and of course we will have to deal with some bad actors temporarily but he has announced that the acceptence of permanent repression will not fly and to hear the ABB crowd heap scorn on Bush’s idealism and have them adopt the bitter cup of “well those arabs really don’t want or can’t handle democracy like us white europeans can” is just to ironic to bear. If they had a brain or were not so politically tone deaf they would have applauded Bush’s speech and then sat back and watched him try to implement the herculean effort that his lofty goals are going to require. But instead they are heaping abuse on Bush and indirectly are becoming the marching and shouting society for the Dictators and the Despots of the world. They watched Kerry fail as he tied to win an election on being the anti-bush and know they are treading down the same road by just saying that Bush is a fool to aspire to freedom and democracy for the world. The Democratic party and the cynical Kissinger, what a match!