Iraq and Afghanistan: Democracy Trumps Democrats.

November 23, 2007
Iran va Jahan
Kevin Fatemi*


As the Democratic Party and brutal dictatorships around the world grimace and curse at each iota of good news coming from Iraq, the freedom-loving people of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan shake their heads in puzzlement at the news from America. Democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan was born on the first election days when proud citizens of these newly-liberated nations risked being blown up by exercising their right to vote for the first time. Meanwhile in Iran, sham elections held with virtually no opposition, no freedom of the press nor any of the facets of true free elections installed a madman bent on internal oppression, external terror and nuclear weapons production on an industrial scale.

Instead of condemnation and protest by the Democratic Party at the brutal internal repression of any and all political opposition in Iran, Ahmadinejad is cited as a potential partner in peace talks by the Democrats. As Amir Taheri pointed out on Fox News, the Middle Eastern people are "baffled" by the propensity of the American press to spin the news in a negative light and also baffled by the "defeatist self-flagellation" of the Democratic leaders such a Harry Reid whose declaration that the war in Iraq was "lost" was broadcast worldwide to the shock of millions who look to America as their only beacon of hope for freedom and to the delight of all those who envision the ultimate destruction of the United States and the rest of Western Civilization.

In his interview on the Fox News radio program with Brian Kilmeade and Kirsten Powers, Mr. Taheri was very eloquent and informative in his descriptions of the improving situation in Iraq and the slowly but surely improving situation in the more difficult Afghanistan. He voiced amazement that the "largest political party in the US" has a leader with such an utter lack of intestinal fortitude as Harry Reid whose declaration of surrender four months ago not only encouraged an embattled and retreating enemy in Iraq to take even more American lives but also encouraged countless more naive and brainwashed young Al Quaida recruits from outside Iraq to take part in their purported victory in Iraq. The lack of press coverage of positive events in Iraq only lends more credence to Mr. Taheri's take on the US press' apparent policy on the good news from Iraq that "good news is no news."

While Mr. Taheri attempted to expound on the successes of the "Surge" in forcing Al Quaida out of the population centers and into the desert where they can be effectively decimated, Miss Powers (a former Bill Clinton aide and vociferous defender of any and all things Democratic) interrupted and drowned out Mr. Taheri rudely to insist that while the 50% reduction in violence is "only short term while the overall fatality rate for US troops is the same as several years ago."

This brilliant interpretation of the obvious only furthered Mr. Taheri's point that the US is fixated on bad news. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is only hearing the shrill pinings of the Democratic Party and not the voices of freedom that laud the Surge as the turning point in the Iraq war. As Mr. Taheri pointed out, now is the time for the US to solidify its victory in Iraq instead of negating this costly triumph with defeatist declarations of intent to withdraw and desert all those who have risked their lives to wave their purple fingers in the air in celebration of their first participation in the democratic process.

While Mr. Taheri described the Afghan situation as more complicated with leadership being shared between the Karzai governments, the US, the UN, NATO and others, the primary threat to the young Afghan democracy remains the Pakistani government's determination to have a finger in the pot or to have a part in Afghan politics after the Western powers depart.

This inclination has led to the Pakistani perpetuation of the Taliban movement by permitting a form of "Taliban-Light" to exist in the border provinces. While the Democrats now lambaste Musharaf as a military tyrant, they fail to see the existential threat that the toppling of the secular government in Pakistan would pose to the world with nuclear weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. CNN's Wolf Blitzer is a perfect example of how the media coddles anything and anyone who represents a barb at President Bush while stifling and muffling any logical reasoning from the pro-American and pro-democracy right. Take, for example, Mr. Blitzer's brief interview with John Bolton last Sunday. While Mr. Bolton tried to explain the urgency of preventing the acquisition of nuclear weapons technology by the terrorist regime in Teheran, CNN's Wolf Blitzer very rudely and loudly cut off Mr. Bolton and the interview as soon it was obvious that Wolf's negative slant on all Bush policies was being rebuffed deftly by the knowledgeable and experienced John Bolton.

In summary, the Democratic Party in the US has become the champion of all the foes of freedom and democracy in those countries where freedom is denied by the force of arms, torture and terror. Instead of praising our troops for bringing freedom to millions of downtrodden Iraqis and Afghans, the Democrats and their press lackeys trumpet the deaths of our troops as signs of defeat and the need to surrender. This determination to laud anything that could be configured as a defeat for President Bush as a hot news item while scrumptiously stifling all the good news emanating from the theater of operations can only lead one to conclude the Democratic Party has developed into a fundamentalist anti-American domestic propaganda machine whose primary goal is the success of all foreign enemies and the ultimate betrayal of all those millions of downtrodden, voiceless and hopeless victims of domestic terror, repression and tyranny who have only the US to look to for hope for a better future for their children in the Middle East.

*Kevin Fatemi is an American political analyst and a contributor to Iran-va-Jahan online.