Category: World

Along with all the recent news coming to light that Bush told the truth when he said that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Niger, and that British intelligence showed that Iraq had WMD, Victor Davis Hanson has a more than usually excellent essay about the lessons of history.

Everybody’s used to being cynical about politicians. Reflexive delusions of the anti-Bush crowd aside, I used to think the most important character quality of President Bush was that he’s an excellent poker player.

And then I notice something like this and I get all teary-eyed. I challenge even the most hardened Bush-hater to be cynical about this story.

(Hat tip: On the Third Hand).

The usual excellent fare from Victor Davis Hanson.

John Kerry is starting to get it that the conventional ignorance of Michael Moore, the New York Times, and George Soros is already anachronistic. You can see that well enough when a grandee like Tom Brokaw, Christiane Amanpour, or a Nightline flunky starts in with the usual cheap, cynical hits against Iraq reformers — only to be stunned mid-sentence, like deer in the headlights, with the sense that they are berating noble and sincere men and women — far better folk than themselves — who at risk to their lives are crafting something entirely new in the Middle East.

Lileks delivers typically trenchant but also more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger smackdown of some of Michael Moore’s latest verbal absurdities (but I repeat myself).

Read the whole thing.