"Over the past two decades, as democracies replaced police states across Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America, and a new economic dynamism lifted hundreds of millions of eastern and southern Asia out of poverty and into the middle class, the Middle East stagnated in a perverse time warp that reduced its brightest people to hopelessness or barely contained rage. The wonder is less that a new political restlessness is finally visible, but that it took so long to break through the ice."

Yeah, no thanks to you fucks who opposed those things every step of the way. Anyone else's blood boil upon reading this editorial? Where the fuck were they when their opinion would have counted. Instead they're here at the end celebrating and saying "Isn't it obvious?"

Victory has a thousand fathers, or so the saying goes.

A Constrained Vision has similar comments about a NY Times op-ed column by David Brooks.

Talk about cojones, including the line "the elegant boulevards of Beirut" means they have a big enough pair to recite from a 1965 Michelin guide rather than to actually go to Beruit. I was there three years ago and if there was an elegant boulevard it was lined on both sides with crumbling buildings, sand bags, street beggars, armed gangs, and barbed wire and covered with potholes that could and may well have been open graves. I sure didn't see anything I'd call elegant about the place. Granted, I didn't see it all, but I saw enough to convince that it wasn't worth seeing the rest.

Speaking of cojones -

http://www.oliverwillis.com/sleaze/2004/09/chapter-1.php

The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances.

Wow. That's big of them. A healthy share, huh? For many of these advances, huh? Hey, don't go overboard, assholes.

"Yeah, no thanks to you fucks who opposed those things every step of the way. Anyone else's blood boil upon reading this editorial? Where the fuck were they when their opinion would have counted. Instead they're here at the end celebrating and saying "Isn't it obvious?"
Great point Moonbat One! And Speaking of cojones again, W really showed them during this whole affair, especially when things looked bad.