Freedom Isn’t Free
Why is it that every time something like this happens...
...we get comments from liberals like this one:
What do they want us to do, turn the country back over to Saddam? I'm not sure the Kurds, who were slaughtered in wholesale numbers by Saddam and his regime, would like that though I'm sure the Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel would.
What did these people expect, an overnight success? Did they really expect that we'd be able to undo decades of hate and oppression in under two years? Freedom is a tall and bitter drink that is just now being tasted by Iraqi's. If they want freedom they will have it, but its not going to be free. Unfortunately for them it seems as though they're also going to have to overcome criticism from the American left who wants to scream "I told you so" everytime operations in Iraq suffer a set back.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 5 - Militants surrounded a bus full of unarmed Iraqi contractors employed by American forces as they rode to work on Sunday morning and gunned down 17 of them. It was the latest in a series of increasingly brazen attacks that have left more than 80 people dead in the past three days and deepened the sense of growing mayhem here as the January elections approach.
The bus ambush in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown, also underscored the increasing risks faced by Iraqis who work for the American-led occupation and are singled out as collaborators. The ambush was part of an intensified insurgent campaign aimed at terrorizing Iraq's fledgling security forces and fomenting sectarian divisions that could undermine the elections or perhaps force a delay.
...we get comments from liberals like this one:
How does anyone justifying saying things are better for Iraqis?
What do they want us to do, turn the country back over to Saddam? I'm not sure the Kurds, who were slaughtered in wholesale numbers by Saddam and his regime, would like that though I'm sure the Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel would.
What did these people expect, an overnight success? Did they really expect that we'd be able to undo decades of hate and oppression in under two years? Freedom is a tall and bitter drink that is just now being tasted by Iraqi's. If they want freedom they will have it, but its not going to be free. Unfortunately for them it seems as though they're also going to have to overcome criticism from the American left who wants to scream "I told you so" everytime operations in Iraq suffer a set back.
