Admitting the Obvious

Recently several Democrats including Ted Kennedy, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton have reluctantly admitted that maybe, just maybe the foreign policies of the Bush administration are succeeding. Now, even the foreign press is grudgingly succumbing to that as a possibility.

"Could George W. Bush Be Right?" asked Claus Christian Malzahn in the German
newsweekly Der
Spiegel. Essayist Guy Sorman asked last month in the Paris daily Le Figaro (by subscription), "And If Bush
Was Right?" In Canada, anti-war columnist Richard Gwyn of the Toronto
Star answered: "It is time to set down in type the most difficult sentence
in the English language. That sentence is short and simple. It is this: Bush was
right."

Given Bush's insistence that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq would lead to a
democratic political order in the Middle East, many Europeans are "somewhat
embarrassed" by these developments, Sorman wrote in Le Figaro.

"Hadn't they promised, governments and media alike, that the Arab street would
rise up [against U.S. military forces], that Islam would burn, that the American
army would get bogged down, that the terrorist attacks would multiply, and that
democracy would not result nor be exported?"

The left, both here and abroad are beginning to realize how disingenuous and foolish they look continuing to try and turn a "silk purse into a sows ear."