Even the Guardian Wonders if Bush Has Been Right All Along…
The title doesn’t pull any punches: Perhaps the neocons got it right in the Middle East (Hat tip: Captain Ed)
Aside from the jabbing reference to “neocons”, Max Hastings says, “We should not be blinded by liberal prejudice when assessing Bush.”
The greatest danger for those of us who dislike George Bush is that our instincts may tip over into a desire to see his foreign policy objectives fail. No reasonable person can oppose the president’s commitment to Islamic democracy. Most western Bushophobes are motivated not by dissent about objectives, but by a belief that the Washington neocons’ methods are crass, and more likely to escalate a confrontation between the west and Islam than to defuse it.
Such scepticism, however, should not prevent us from stepping back to reassess the progress of the Bush project, and satisfy ourselves that mere prejudice is not blinding us to the possibility that western liberals are wrong; that the Republicans’ grand strategy is getting somewhere.
Wow. Are there some on the Left finally seeing the light?
First there was admitted liberal, Mark Brown saying he might vote Republican in 2008 while asking, “What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?”
Then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted current Western liberal thinking was sinking the DNC.
Now The Guardian, the British left-wing newspaper that advocated the assassination of President Bush last Fall has an article postulating that liberals may be wrong and conservatives may be right.
Think the Left has their iPods tuned to R.E.M. right about now?