Yep, Steyn nails it again. One of his best yet:
"Bush lied, people dyed. Their fingers. That's what this is about: Millions of Kurds, Shia and Sunnis beaming as they emerge from polling stations and hold up their purple fingers after the freest, fairest election ever held in the Arab world. "Liberal" in the American sense is a dirty word because it's come to stand for a shriveled parochial obsolescent irrelevance, of which ''Good Night, and Good Luck,'' Clooney's dreary little retread of the McCarthy years, is merely the latest example. (Clooney says he wants more journalists to "speak truth to power," which is why I'm insulting his movie.)
The Anglo-American political tradition is the most successful in the world in part because of the concept of "loyal opposition." Yes, the party out of office opposes the party in office and hopes to supplant it, but not at the expense of the broader political culture. A party that winds up cheerleading for a deranged loser death cult is the very definition of pointless self-defeating sour oppositionism. So, as Zarqawi flails, Dean and Murtha and Kerry flail ever more pathetically, too. Just wait till the WMD turn up."
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"The Anglo-American political tradition is the most successful in the world." Many of course will needlessly and incorrectly call that statement "racist", because they cannot tolerate recognizing the achievements of humans who are not Asian, African, or American-Indian, for some reason. The author of this statement I assume agrees with me that although the "Anglo-American" political tradition has demosntrated a superiority, it still falls short of perfection. If only to finally eliminate the unwarrented racial discussion, I hope that many non-honkey nations improve upon this tradition of popular rule, free enterprise, consent of the governed, rule of law, seperation of religion from state, minority rights, etc. Then people like me can start pointing to the Tiewanese, Nigerians, etc., as examples of increasing prosperity, security, etc.
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