Protestors against war in Iraq emulate nuclear-freeze protestors in 1980's claiming Reagan's hard-line stance would increase, rather than reduce, nuclear arms.

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Protestors against war in Iraq emulate nuclear-freeze protestors in 1980's claiming Reagan's hard-line stance would increase, rather than reduce, nuclear arms.·

Some groups, and their emulators, never learn. In the 1980's millions marched throughout Europe to protest Reagan's stance on nuclear-arms negotiations. They claimed the path to reduction of nuclear arms was for America to appease the Soviet Union by showing good faith by unilaterally reducing nuclear weapons to encourage the Soviet Union to do likewise. They equated Reagan with Hitler. They mocked his intelligence. The claimed he was too stupid to be President. They called him a war-monger. They even called him a bad actor. They were apoplectic that he had called the Soviet Union and "evil empire." The laughed derisively when he stood at the Brandenburg Gate and demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." They howled with ridicule when he said Communism was destined for the "dust bin of history."

Millions of the members of the same crowd, and their Twenty-First Century progeny, are now marching throughout Europe. They equate George W. Bush with Hitler. They mock his intelligence. They clam he's too stupid to be President. They claim his policies will increase, rather than decrease, terrorism. They favor what is essentially law-enforcement/tic-tac-toe tactics against terrorism rather than a strategy of warfare under which America maintains an offensive against the terrorists rather than merely responding to terrorist attacks after the fact with law-enforcement measures. They call him a war-monger. They laugh derisively at his eloquent speeches explaining that the war in which we are now engaged (declared by the other side) is one between civilization and medieval barbarism.

What is the significance of these worldwide protests this weekend on the one-year anniversary of the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom? It's excellent evidence that Bush is doing the right thing. Rather than being distressed about such protests, Bush (and Americans) should take heart that our policies are so despised by such a collection of such a collection of short-sighted, myopic ideologues.

To Dubya: Take Heart.·

It's often you know we are right
when people with wisdom delight
at choices you make
in pathways you take
towards that you believe to be right.

But equally often you know
you're right from by whom you're opposed.
Advice I impart
to Dubya, "Take heart,
be glad by the Left you're opposed."

The millions who march in the street
to call you a "Hitler" to be,
in history's bin
their hystery ends
when more generations are free.

Five or ten years from now, when the march of history has demonstrated the wisdom of the vision articulated by Bush (and Tony Blair), the same crowd will be in the streets protesting against sensible solutions to whatever is their cause de jour at that time. They won't even be impressed that Bush and Blair would have become revered figures in Iraq and much of the Middle East, grateful for having been nudged into modernity by the foresight of those two leaders.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.

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