Posted by
"Mind and Morals" Michael Coyne on Monday, June 22, 2009 11:34:00 AM
AS most of my readers know, we’re presently in a
saber-rattling bout with the North Korean regime over their desire to construct
nuclear weapons. For those who were unaware, the story can be found here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_nkorea
For what it’s worth, I don’t disagree with President Obama
here. We cannot allow an unstable man like Kim Jong-Il to obtain nuclear
weapons capability. This would be a danger to democracy and liberty everywhere,
particularly in Japan, America, and, most notably, South Korea.
In other news, Senators McCain and Lieberman have introduced
a resolution demanding that America—and, of course, the president—take a harder
line in defense of the people of Iran, who are calling for a free and fair
election for their president. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently claimed a
landslide victory in the Iranian presidential elections. Of course, he never
bothered to count the votes. The story is below:
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48753851-senators-lieberman-mccain-on-iran-resolution#
All of this sounds awfully familiar. Where could we have
possibly heard that Iran and North Korea would become a severe problem and an
amalgamated threat to freedom before the close of the decade?
“Our
second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America
or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these
regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know
their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and
weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.
Iran
aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few
repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.
Iraq
continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.
The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and
nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used
poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of
mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to
international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime
that has something to hide from the civilized world.
States like these, and their terrorist
allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
Oh, that’s right. This came from President Bush’s 2002 State of the
Union Address, otherwise known as the “Axis of Evil” speech. Bush was
criticized as a “warmonger” and was absolutely lambasted in the liberal media
for saying the above. He was charged with foreign policy ineptitude in the
court of public opinion, and the Left said that he was full of nonsense.
Now, here we are, seven years later, and those same people on both the
Left and the Right are left saying everything except the one concise phrase
that sums up the whole situation: “Oops. I guess Bush was right.”
Readers, a couple weeks ago, I posted a blarticle that begged the
question, “Why is it that we only notice that someone was right after it’s
already too late?” Here, America did just that. Former President Bush said
something that nobody wanted to hear, something that nobody wanted to admit,
and something that nobody wanted to face. And he turned out to be right on the
money.
It is literally saddening to me, but I’m certain that within a span of a
couple of months, President Obama will give his own version of the “Axis of
Evil” speech. It will be watered down. There will be little or no mention of
weapons of mass destruction. The language will likely not use charged words
like “evil” or “axis;” that is Republican language. But the overall message
will be the same: North Korea and Iran are threats to liberty and to democracy.
The world will not be safe with these regimes in power. And President Obama
will be hailed as a visionary for his speech. He will be called “bold,” and “incisive.”
And the media will drown him in wet, sloppy kisses.
But all the while, thinking Americans will be left with three immortal
words on their lips. Three words that will pain many Americans and humiliate
many more.
“Bush was right.”