the13thfloor

I love discussing politics. I love getting together with my family. It is a large family with lots of cousins and uncles and kids and friends. It is also a family dominated by lifelong liberals. They are all the typical Bush hating, UN loving, diplomacy supporting liberals. I spent better than 4 hours discussing world politics, education, healthcare and economics with "proud liberals" at this party. I was also outnumbered at least 4 to 1 on every topic. I was subjected to the predictable arguments. "Bush squandered a $10 trillion surplus." "Bush is not spending enough on education." "The solution to 45 million uninsured is national healthcare." "Bush lied about Iraq to go to war for the oil." "There are not now any WMD's and never were any AMD's." "Bin Ladin is still alive." "America must appease the rest of the world so they will stop hating us." "Imperial America has no right to demand countries face preemptive attacks for supporting terror." I've heard all these tired arguments before. The argument that got me the angriest was "the U.S. and the world in general, is more at risk today because of our foriegn policies than before 9-11." To me this is absolutely preposterous. I argue that we are beating terrorism on many fronts. Al Queda is in shambles. Bin Laden is holed up trying to stay alive. We have liberated Afghanistan. We have liberated Iraq. We are forcing many nations to confront the terrorists and terror supporting institutions within their borders. We are spreading freedom and liberty throughout the middle east. The dominos are starting to fall. All to no avail. To the "proud liberal" America is still the root of all evil in the world. So this morning I wake up and open my local newspaper, The Denver Post , to read Eqypt will be having its first direct elections ever! Wow, really great news. I wanted to link to this article but could not find it at the Denver Post online. I was able to find a link to the story here. This raises the question of bias in the main stream media. But, I don't want to get into that discussion here. The question I have for all the "proud liberals" out there is this, would Eqypt be having direct elections if the U.S. had not liberated Iraq? If Egypt is having direct elections for the first time ever, Is America at more risk? Face it folks, We are winning the war on terrorism.