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March 20, 2005

Russian tanks rolling down Flatbush Avenue

The New York Times does its best to put a brave face on the poor turnout at local anti-war rallies yesterday. Some 350 people--loony even by liberal New York standards--turned out in Times Square, and a few more rallied in Harlem and marched down Malcolm X Ave banging bongo drums. Some managed to get arrested outside military recruitment centers. The news showed a nearly-empty sheep meadow in Central Park with a reporter desperately trying to make a story out of nothng.

Above, a small group rallies in Harlem outside Bill Clinton's office (a fact not noted by the Times.)

In Algoma, Wisc., a total of 8 people turned out for a rally, with similar sprinklings of rallies around the country. They'd do something similar even as Russian tanks rolled down Flatbush Avenue. If the MSM and Chuck Rangel were right that the war has been a "quagmire," "debacle," or whatever, one might think that more than a handful of crazy New Yorkers would turn out to say, "see, I told ya so."

But they didn't tell us so. The success of democractic reform in the Middle East--in Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, and (of course) Iraq--is hard for even a loony New Yorker to deny. And Americans know that war can be messy; Reconstruction, for example, was a two-decade hash that makes Iraq look like a kerfuffle. But the Civil War and Reconstruction were worth the effort to free a people, and the Iraq war is a small price to pay for freedom in the Middle East.

Posted by adrianjo at March 20, 2005 10:44 AM

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