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Lebanon. Wow.

I have spent much of the last week in a courtroom or preparing to be in a courtroon. Every time I tried to pull info on the Lebanon story, all I could access quickly was Michael Jackson. Argh. So, this morning, it was the blogs for news.

As I was trying to put into words my reaction to what is going on, I found that Hugh Hewitt says it better. (This comes as a surprise because usually he says it better before I have even thought it. Rarely am I am thinking of how to say it when I get to him.)

As with the Poles, so with the Lebanese --they are putting their lives on the line to face down their oppressors. But American policy stands with them and encourages them, and pressures the dictators not to strike back, and threatens the tyrants if they do. The refusal to recognize that American policy does indeed have consequences is yet another exhibit in the huge array of arguments as to why Democrats cannot be trusted to run the nation's foreign policy ---they don't think it matters.

I have liked Bush for a long time but he has done more than even I expected. I have often wondered if Reagan got lucky with the Soviet Union what with Lech Walesa, Gorbachev, and Pope John Paul II all around at the same time. This administration's string of changes in the Middle East with rhetoric and harsh action in Afghanistan and Iraq is producing results that convince me.

Another 4 years of Bush and 4 years of a true successor in ideology and I think we will see a very different world.

Cheap aside but I have to say it because I think it several times a day: Condi Rice looks like a rock star. She has just taken charge of that position.

Posted by Justene Adamec at March 1, 2005 09:48 AM | TrackBack