Loosing the Mantle of Liberty in Iraq ..

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Where once conservatives beat the drum for liberty in Iraq, they currently beat the drum for obligation and respect for an ally. I am loyal to a fault so I have had great sympathy for the conservative argument as it related to Mubarak, but in the end I felt the potential for freedom and liberty outweighed any sense of loyalty to Mubarak.

Mubarak is gone now. Where does that leave us?

I believe the left hindered democracy in Iraq for political reasons but with democracy possibly on the march in the middle east that legacy becomes a political liability. Therefore they ignore the obvious success in Iraq in favor of defining the genesis of what may be the democratization of the Mideast as Egypt.

Though no effort of their own events have unfolded in Egypt such that democrats are attempting to claim the mantel of freedom and liberty after actively resisting it for years in Iraq. Chris Matthews has gone so far as to ask if what has happened in Egypt may be the start of the democratization of the middle east. He asks this despite the fact that there is a democracy currently in Iraq doing just that - prompting citizens of neighboring nations to question why they don't have self determination themselves.


If we (the right) don't start claiming Iraq to be the foreign policy success that it has become and the source of the desire for freedom felt by the citizenry across the Mideast then the left is going to define that source such that they are presented in the best possible light themselves when they should be sinking due to the political dead weight of resisting Iraqi liberty.

Should we really be so concerned with loyalty toward the now deposed Mubarak that we allow the party that profited politically from resisting liberty in Iraq to steal the mantel of liberty from us by taking advantage of the random events within Egypt?

It's time to move on - Mubarak is gone - the military is making the right noises ...

Are we the really the stupid party?


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