Lancing the Boil

We quietly keep on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy.

Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at the effects the Iraqi elections are having at home and abroad on the chattering classes in this National Review article. The developments in Iraq have, as usual, taken the critics by surprise. Because as we all are supposed to know, the BushHitlerHalliburton regime is the most evil in history. In the parallel reality of the Eurotrash elites, the Angry Left and the Defeatocrats, the critics have been united in their condemnation of American defence, capitalism and conservatives as if they were a dread disease spreading across the landscape.

Back in the real world however, events are proving the administration's strategy to be the right one as democracy is taking hold in Iraq and the economy back home is in full swing. According to the received wisdom of the elites, this was all supposed to be impossible. And the Democratic Left has lurched around like an angry drunk trying to explain away its own failure to understand the success of the administration and why the world behaves in ways which refute the leftist fantasy.