Friday, December 16, 2005

Take a guess


I am going to reproduce excerpts from an editorial in a major newspaper today. After you read it, I'd like to you guess which paper it is from. Answer below.

Iraq's inspiring example

... It is also a rebuke to those who say that it is futile to plant democracy in the Middle East. Iraqis clearly feel otherwise. Millions of them walked through the streets of their towns and cities yesterday to vote for a new national assembly, the first permanent, democratic parliament the country has in decades. The turnout was reported to be heavy in all parts of the country, even the Sunni districts where the insurgency is strongest. In the Shia and Kurdish regions, where most people oppose the insurgents, the mood was celebratory. Instead of the usual grim pictures of smouldering buildings and burnt bodies, the world saw another side of Iraq: proud, smiling people waving ink-stained fingers after exercising their new right to vote. Some voters even walked to the polls wrapped in the Iraqi flag. Only the sourest cynic could fail to be inspired.

... Remember, too, that since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis have suffered through a repellant campaign of terror and destruction that has killed or maimed thousands of innocent people. That they marched to the polls anyway, heedless to the danger, heads held high, was triumph for human liberty.

... Those of us in safer places can only wonder at their courage.


Ok, so where do you think it came from? If you guessed the Wall St. Journal, you're wrong. Washingon Times? Nope. USA Today? Uh uh. National Review? Not even close.

This came from Canada's national newspaper - the Red Tory, mushy, apologetic Globe and Mail.

Finally, the Canadian establishment realizes the value of risk-taking, guts and leadership.

It is about damn time.

5 Comments:

At 3:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Spin it all you like. Iraq is a failed state and will be the ruin of so many persons in the years to come. Just cause they went to the polls is not a vindication of anything. What did you expect them to do? Stay at home?

 
At 4:13 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

Sour grapes, Nick?

 
At 4:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think you are kidding yourself if you think this is going to turn out well in the end.

 
At 5:07 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

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At 5:12 PM, Blogger Road Hammer said...

When is "the end", exactly?

 

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