Right Wing Nut House

Looks like Baby Assad has seen the writing on the wall; or does he feel a kick in the pants?

Syria expects to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in a few months, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Tuesday.

“It (withdrawal) should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that. I can’t give you a technical answer. The point is the next few months,” he told Time magazine.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. This is NOT the result of anything George Bush has done or advocated. Don’t believe me? Just ask this guy:

But it literally never crossed my mind that Bush’s fans would credit him with for this positive event, as though his pro-democracy speeches exercise some sort of rhetorical enchantment.

This is the kind of thinking, of course, that has convinced God knows how many people that Ronald Reagan personally won the Cold War. It’s the old post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) logical fallacy.

Ahem…talk about “logical fallacies”…When a President (Reagan) announces to the world less than 6 months into his first term that the Soviet Union is an “evil empire” and will eventually fall as a result of its own internal contradictions and then less than 10 years later it does fall as a result of its internal contradictions (and a healthy push from aforementioned Gipper along with Thatcher, Pope John Paul, and a host of others), is this a “logical fallacy” or a “logical outcome” as a result of policies announced and pursued?

Duh.

Freedom is once again on the march because America wills it. Whenever America has put its mind to promoting freedom and individual liberty around the world, the results have been breathtaking to behold. The idea that it was an accident that democracy broke out in central America when Reagan promoted it by supporting the government of El Salvador, funding the contras, and liberating Grenada is delusional. It says a lot about the myopia of the left that every time they’ve been proven wrong by events, the reason has been an accident of history or blind luck. It’s never that their worldview is hopelessly and irrevocably flawed.

Certainly there are other forces at work in Lebanon, not the least of which is a resurgent nationalism made long dormant by the oppressive occupation of Syrian troops. But if you listen to the old Druze warlord Walid Jumblatt, you get the distinct feeling that George Bush just may have had something to do with Lebanon’s current march towards freedom:

“It’s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq,” explains Jumblatt. “I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.” Jumblatt says this spark of democratic revolt is spreading. “The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”

Of course, after democracy is established in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Iran, and perhaps even Saudi Arabia, what will we hear from the moonbats? “Our” strategy worked!

Jyah! As if! Moonbats live by the old adage…if you can’t beat ‘em, lie like hell.