31 January 2005
"Every picture tells a story, don't it?"
The lyric from the old Rod Stewart song came to mind as I was watching the late reprise of the earlier evening news on Fox News Channel. (since I was busy with school's robotics team earlier). They closed with an absolutely uplifiting video montage of Iraqi people after their election celebrating and literally lined up dancing in the streets.
How some members of the chattering classes in the MSM as well as academia could have been so patronizingly arrogant as to proclaim before the vote things like "The Iraqis are a bunch of primitivistic Arab tribalists who liked it that way, and could never adapt to democracy" is beyond me. I hope the pictures that I, along with the world saw coming out of Iraq sit in their guts like a piece of rotten fish, and gnaws at their built in sense of smug (false) sense of superiority.
How some members of the chattering classes in the MSM as well as academia could have been so patronizingly arrogant as to proclaim before the vote things like "The Iraqis are a bunch of primitivistic Arab tribalists who liked it that way, and could never adapt to democracy" is beyond me. I hope the pictures that I, along with the world saw coming out of Iraq sit in their guts like a piece of rotten fish, and gnaws at their built in sense of smug (false) sense of superiority.
