Via InstaPundit, David Warren also has some very cogent thoughts on Iraq. Excerpt:
Returning from four weeks of holiday, in which I did my best to avoid all news, I find myself again somewhat shocked by the sheer malice of the mainstream media. The journalists themselves are overwhelmingly "liberal". In the U.S., for instance, they have been shown to vote as a class for Democrats over Republicans by margins of more than ten-to-one; and further, that they tend to identify with the left wing of that Democrat Party. They want to bring down President Bush, at all costs; and if Iraq is turned back into a Saddamite killing field, or Al Qaeda is given a new lease on life, they don't particularly care. For they smell Republican blood.Posted by oscarjr at August 26, 2003 09:03 PM | TrackBackTurning to Iraq itself, the situation continues to improve. It was never going to be a rose garden, but it is clear to impartial observers within the country that Iraqis themselves are co-operating -- the overwhelming majority within each of its religious and ethnic groups, including even the Sunnis, co-operating with each other and with the U.S. military to hunt down Ba' athists and insurgents, and rebuild the country both physically and institutionally, even through the baking summer heat. It is the most promising event in post-colonial Arab history.
