Peggy Noonan jumps on the Lebanon bandwagon

[Cocoa]

I disagree with her statement, "no one can say that a new hopefulness has not been infused, and infused by America."

Speaking for myself, I personally think an unimaginable horror has been brought by America to Iraq, and that it's been getting progressively worse since the election.

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There are two predominant journalistic memes since the Arab spring began. The first, from the left: What if Bush was right? This was most famously and appropriately grappled with on Comedy Central, when Democratic foreign-policy thinker Nancy Soderberg consoled Jon Stewart with the hopefully facetious, but either way revealing, advice to hang on, things can still turn bad with North Korea or Iran. The other, from the middle and the right: As I wrote in this space two years ago, the invasion of Iraq will likely give rise to a surge of democratic feeling that will inspire the entire Mideast. This is known as making it clear to one's fans and foes that you were on the right side of history.

It's also known as bragging. But so what? All who supported the Iraqi invasion took lumps for it; all who defended it in what seemed its dark days, and argued for its potential to transform the air of defeat that lingered over Arab politics, deserve the right to say, "I was right." So go here and here for a sampling of what things looked like to me back then.

I continue to think the president's inaugural address, suggesting as it did that he was on a mission to expunge all political tyranny from the globe, and asserting that our nation's survival depended on this utopian project, was a rather crazy speech, weirdly Wilsonian and at odds with conservatism's ancestral knowledge of the imperfectability of this world and the inability of politics to heal all that wounds us. (Take it away, FreeRepublic.) Samuel Johnson was a genius of literature, but he knew his politics: "How small of all that human hearts endure / That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!"
But some things can be healed, and precisely because the endeavor is not utopian but practical. The Iraq project was not utopian: it was a high-risk gut call, a gamble that was also an investment, and it was motivated in part by a belief that progress is possible when right action is boldly taken. By continuing a laser-like focus on the area in which so much of our nation's energies had been so deeply invested, by staying the course, by sticking to his timetable for elections, President Bush, with his grit, has produced an outcome that is deeply impressive, moving, and cause for world-wide joy.

No one knows what comes next. No one knows what Hezbollah will do, no one knows what will emerge from what is still a cauldron. But no one can say that a new hopefulness has not been infused, and infused by America.

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[Avalux]

1. Peggy Noonan can kiss my ass

she's a Bushco whore...getting those talking points out; advocacy journalism at it's worst. I don't expect anything else from her.

[Frances]

2. What about hopes in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

Those are two of our closest allies.

[farmbo]

3. LOL...she ignores the 200,000 Hezbolla supporters in the streets yesterday

...It apparently did not jibe with her Rovian storyline, so she simply ignored it.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

4. Peggy Noonan jumps on Lesbian bandwagon--now that's news!

[Southsideirish]

5. No offense intended but why would anyone care what she says?

[riverwalker]

6. She also wrote that the war made her aroused

last year. After that bizarre essay, she is officially insane, in my book.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Really? And I thought she was always straight.

Oh, LEBANON.