April 14, 2004

The Inevitable Movement of World History is On Bush’s Side.

It seems to me that one of the most important things Bush said last night was this:

For the first time, the civilized world has provided a concerted response to the ideology of terror—a series of powerful, effective blows.

The terrorists have lost the shelter of the Taliban and the training camps in Afghanistan. They have lost safe havens in Pakistan. They lost an ally in Baghdad. And Libya has turned its back on terror. They’ve lost many leaders in an unrelenting international manhunt.

This is a key point. Until Bush’s response to 9-11, the civilized world had not determined a suitable response to terrorism.

Many said that it was impossible to find terrorists due to their ability to hide within the populations of nations.

And we all remember how we were told that it would be impossible to root terrorists out of Afghanistan because of their supposedly impenetrable caves.

And so terrorists found that they could go around the world, killing with impunity, losing at most an operative here or there. No country took the actions required to destroy them.

Since 9-11 the world has changed for the terrorists. Now they face the might of entire nations, devoted to hunting them down all over the world. Not surprisingly, terrorist operations are being hounded and dismantled.

Many on the Left would have us turn back the clock. Many on the Left would have us continue to respond to terrorism as if it were a job for the police, ineffectively arresting an operative here or there.

But the clock cannot be turned back. George Bush has seen the inevitable movement of world history. It is inevitable that, when confronted by an unending series of mass murders, the targeted nations would eventually wake up to the danger and use every possible means to bring the terrorists down.

The Left has been on the wrong side of history. In fact, it’s becoming so evident, that I would not be surprised if the Left were to start to wake up.

Along those lines, see this post from American Digest. (via Instapundit).