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Winds of Change
Rich Galen Wednesday February 9, 2005
Don't look now, but the Bush Doctrine appears to be working. President Bush suggested that when the people of the Middle East felt the breeze of liberty, it would be too exhilarating to ignore.
Four months ago the election in Afghanistan went so well you haven't read a word about it in months.
In the Ukraine two months ago Viktor Yushchenko, the candidate considered closest to the West, won the second election; the first having been declared fatally flawed by the Ukrainian Supreme Court.
One month ago the Palestinians elected Mahmoud Abbas to replace the late Yassir Arafat as their President. Abbas ran on a platform of moderation.
Ten days ago the Iraqis voted to elected its Transitional Assembly. Sunni Muslims more-or-less boycotted the election - either through fear of violence, or fear of losing control of a country they had ruled for decades.
Three days ago the Sunni leadership, recognizing that the world considered the election to have been legitimate, realized they better get in on the deal and have decided to join the Assembly.
Yesterday, Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met in Sharm el-Sheikh to announce a cessation of violence on both sides providing the first real glimmer of peace in over three years.
Do you see a pattern here? A pattern of (dare we say it) freedom and liberty?
In spite of the arched eyebrows of the Left and their allies in the popular press, the President accurately described, in his inaugural address and again in the State of the Union, the winds of freedom which are carving a path through the Middle East.
It will not be a straight line from here to there. Straight lines do not occur in nature. There will be good days and bad days. It is important that we not dwell too much on the best days or the worst.
It is important that we not measure progress hour-by-top-of-the-hour-news-update.
It is, however, important that we, and our allies, help all the people of a troubled region find their way - their own way - to the liberty and freedom which every person deserves.
New Topic
Regular readers know I like Discover Magazine because it feeds me science in single syllables. Although Discover covers all of the sciences, the editors are dedicated to the proposition that global warming is the single most important issue facing mankind.
They are also dedicated to the notion that global warming is the fault of humans generally, and the fault of humans living between Canada and Mexico in particular.
In this month's issue there is a short article titled, "As the World Warms," which begins:
Hardly a day goes by without fresh evidence of climate change. New reports - from Greenland to Antarctica - show rising temperatures at both poles and changing conditions in what were once stable, icebound areas.
The implication being, it's the fault of every SUV owner from California to the New York Islands.
On the very same page, there is a brief piece about the Cassini mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. While zipping around the rings, shooting the moon, the spacecraft found this:
Cassini has also turned up signs of big shifts in Saturn's climate. Observations by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s clocked winds at Saturn's equator at more than 1,000 miles per hour. The new measurements show equatorial winds have slowed to a much more Earth-like 230 to 450 miles per hour. [Scientists are] confident that both observations are correct, but have no explanation for why conditions have changed so much in the last 20 or so years.
Why are environmentalists so quick to ascribe Earth's climate change to Western greenhouse gas emissions when a fairly significant shift in the weather on Saturn seems to have occurred without the Mullmobile ever having been there?
Winds of change. Here. And there.
On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Another excellent Mullfoto featuring the Skippy Scooter and a nice photo of Sharon and Abbas.
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