Today's Must Read

Every once in a while, you read an article that makes perfect sense. Many times you find out that that article was written by Victor Davis Hanson. Yesterday's piece in NRO explains that Bush and the administration (the neocons if you will) are the most powerful element for change in the world today. They are the radical humanists. The liberals are the backward looking ones. A short example:

After the seven-week defeat of the Taliban, these deer-in-the-headlights critics paused, and then declared the victory hollow. They said the country had descended into rule by warlords, and called the very idea of scheduled voting a laughable notion. We endured them for almost two years. Yet after the recent and mostly smooth elections, Afghanistan has slowly disappeared from the maelstrom of domestic politics, as all those who felt our efforts were not merely impossible but absurd retreated to the shadows to gnash their teeth that Kabul is not yet Carmel. Western feminists, homosexual-rights advocates, and liberal reformists have never in any definitive way expressed appreciation for the Afghan revolution now ongoing in the lives of 26 million formerly captive people. They never will. Instead, Westerners simply now assume that there was never any controversy, but rather a general consensus that Afghanistan is a "good thing" — as if the Taliban went into voluntarily exile due to occasional censure from The New York Review of Books.

Base10 can't hope to explain Hanson's position better than he can. Read the whole thing.
- posted by Base10 @ 10:38 AM