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How Far We've Come

Victor Davis Hanson has another of his brilliant pieces over at National Review. In the press of events, we have at times lost sight of how far we've come - from our stunned gaze into a hole in Manhattan to the cusp of elections in Iraq, it is sometimes hard to remember what we've gone through, and what we have achieved.

Do we now remember the impassable peaks, the snowy haunts of the Taliban that were too high for us, or Kabul, the dreaded graveyard of all imperial expeditions? It was just a few months ago, it seems now, that we were admonished about the fury of retaliation to come for daring to fight during Ramadan, the impossibility of working with a nuclear and Islamic Pakistan, and the Wild West nature of Afghanistan's tribes so impossible to forge into the stuff of consensual government. And it was worse still than all that: the cries on the hard left of millions of refugees to come; the European warning about thousands of dead from indiscriminate American bombing; the need to adjudicate 9/11 by jurisprudence rather than arms; and the crazy conspiracy theories of pipelines, neo-cons, 'Jews,' Likuds, and CIA plots.

Go read the whole thing here, because as per usual, Mr. Hanson's work repays reading every word.

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush at 12:57 AM in category War on Terror

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Hanson is brilliant as always, including his references to Jacques Chirac. That man is a loser. I do not feel the French are our friends now, and maybe they havent been since we saved their ass from Hitler.

More and more, I hear other conservatives refer to the French as adversaries, not allies. What a shame we are in an alliance with such a crock country.

Posted by: WK at December 4, 2004 04:38 AM

Remember who made the mess we tried to clean up in Viet Nam? The French. There is no question in my mind, that the French have not been our friends since the revolutionary war! When we get done with the middle east, will we have to clean up another French mess on the African continent?

Posted by: DagneyT at December 4, 2004 07:50 AM

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