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Lebanon: One year on. Your Views.

I find it both fascinating and important to read what others feel about key issues of our day. This column is taken from a "your opinions" section from Al Jazeera where readers write in expressing their thoughts .... you learn a lot about perspectives from around the globe ... often quite scary and sobering ...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E9A36960-AB5A-43E7-A637-4628328249EB.htm?&choice=3&dgDiscID=172&dgPoolID=c9283284-9360-48e4-b0c9-fa1986735c15

Newsweek, NBC and MSNBS: Far Left at Work

The article below is typical of the far left media that has been working it's hardest to insure we fail as a nation in Iraq. I post it because I want it memorialized for future reference. Everyone from the Europeans to the Iranians are the wise good guys and the faults of the world are all George Bush. What I find most distrubing is the distortion of facts, the revisionist history and the myopic glee over their distruction o George Bush. There is a smug, giddy glee to their coverage but they remain completely unaware that the problem they have created will not leave once Hillary and Bubba return to office. My question becomes what then?

Moving Right Along

While Republicans abandon him at home, the rest of the world is preparing for the era beyond Bush. What the next president should do to repair the breach between Washington and the world.

Newsweek, July 12, 2007 - While the White House desperately tries to save George W. Bush’s “legacy,” the rest of the world is putting it behind them. In capitals around the globe, Bush is already a lame, indeed mortally wounded, duck. And in government offices where U.S. policy can still tilt the fate of nations—that’s most places—the 2008 presidential race is being watched like the World Cup. In Tehran, where I visited in late June, senior officials admit they are closely following the debate. Mohsen Rezai, secretary of Iran’s powerful Expediency Council, told me in an interview that despite Bush’s baby steps toward engagement with a regime he has disdained talking to for six years, “Mr. Bush’s government is stuck at a crossroads and it can’t make a decision. Mr. Bush is not a patient person. We hope … we can pursue a better path with the next American government. The candidates for next American election are saying [more] logical and rational things about Iran." Another top Iranian official, chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, also said he liked what he was hearing, especially about moves to end the Iraq War. “The Democrats are now coming out with good statements, but we don’t know how once in power they would behave.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19731336/site/newsweek/

N.Y. Post: The Surrender Lobby

In democracy at it's ulgyiest, all the rats are leaving what may be a sinking ship thinking they can save their own asses by pointing fingers against the administration at the 11th hour .... what no one is dealing with is the reality of how massive and distrubing an xit will be , televised worldwide, maximized by the terrorists ...

THE SURRENDER LOBBY

July 13, 2007 -- A new intelligence report prepared by the National Counterterrorism Center apparently concludes that al Qaeda is re-energized, and growing increasingly confident that it can stage successful terrorist attacks against the West.

And Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says al Qaeda's "level of intent remains high."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07132007/postopinion/editorials/the_surrender_lobby_editorials_.htm

London Times: The Worst are Deciding America's Policy's

From The Times
July 13, 2007

How paranoid little Napoleons took over America
Iraq and immigration have shown US politics at its worst

Democracy, Winston Churchill famously observed, is the worst form of government ever devised – except for all the others. Well, he was right about the first part.

In America these days democracy is living down to its reputation, producing sticking-plaster solutions to epochal challenges, indulging the worst populist instincts of its voters, throwing up demagogic leaders unworthy of the job and rejecting those of true courage. The most depressing spectacle is unfolding over Iraq. Washington has reached the stage where vital national interests – and the security of much of the world – are being determined almost entirely by immediate, panicky political considerations. Americans want their troops home.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article2067022.ece

Victor Davis Hanson Replies to the New York Times

Victor Davis Hanson
The New York Times Surrenders
A monument to defeatism on the editorial page
12 July 2007

On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Home,” demanding an immediate American withdrawal from Iraq. It is rare that an editorial gets almost everything wrong, but “The Road Home” pulls it off. Consider, point by point, its confused—and immoral—defeatism.

1. “It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.”

Rarely in military history has an “orderly” withdrawal followed a theater-sized defeat and the flight of several divisions. Abruptly leaving Iraq would be a logistical and humanitarian catastrophe. And when scenes of carnage begin appearing on TV screens here about latte time, will the Times then call for “humanitarian” action?

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-07-12vdh.html