Iraqi Voting (Con't)

There's a letter in the letters to the editor section of the WSJ today that's well worth reading (sorry, subscription only):

The Desire to Vote, The Fear of Terror
Farnaz Fassihi's page-one article yesterday about the Iraqi engineer Ayoub and his desire to vote is very interesting ("Hazardous Duty: For Iraqi Engineer, a Harrowing Choice: Whether to Vote"). The U.S. had a similar situation 40 years ago in our version of the Sunni Triangle, the American South. White supremacists attempted to suppress the black vote through terror and intimidation, including church bombings. Of course, back then, the American left stood in solidarity with the oppressed masses and mobilized to defend their right to vote.

It is absolutely shameful what has happened in the past 40 years to the left in America; their decline into moral relativism, more than anything, explains why the majority of Americans choose to follow President Bush toward a future in which people like Ayoub have a chance at freedom.

Stuart Creque
Moraga, Calif.

Thank you Mr. Creque, Base10 could not have said it any better.
- posted by Base10 @ 2:08 PM