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October 11, 2004

Freedom is on the march!

Via Michael Gonzalez's piece in The Wall Street Journal! -

A foolproof way to know whether a society is on the way up, or down, is to track the movement of its people. Three million refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, Iran and India. On my flight in to Kabul from New Delhi, I was able to put those numbers in human context. There they were, these refugees, giddily snapping pictures of each other with antiquated cameras. Others looked out the window with wonderment at the countryside of their ancestors -- a landscape they hardly knew. They were coming home, some for the first time in years, the younger ones to a place they'd never seen.

Very hopeful!

"Not only do I not want international troops to leave, I want them to stay here for many years," said a man I encountered near a thoroughfare, as U.S. tanks crunched by. A 22-year-old called Farhad -- who'd spent almost all his life in exile in Iran, but had moved back -- explained things to me by placing a can of Coke (what else?) on a bench and putting his hands on either side of it. Talking of his erstwhile place of exile, he said: "Iranians see their country and see that on one side Iraq's been liberated, and on the other Afghanistan's been liberated. No one in Iran likes the fundamentalists. They are praying they are next. Bush has brought peace to Afghanistan, and he will do that to Iraq. Will he do that to Iran?"

Very hopeful indeed!

Farhad has asked the million dollar question. Will the United States continue the push towards freedom and ally the land of liberty with the Iranian people who are in need of a good friend in their struggle? If the forces of liberty become misguided, lazy, and choose to be satisfied by a status quo of regional dictatorships and sort-of-democracies, then it's certain the free world has yet to experience its darkest hour. Freedom must prevail!

There's a difference between us. You think the people of this land exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it. - from Braveheart (1995)

Be sure to check out Afghan election coverage at the Command Post, A Small Victory, Blogs of War, Allah, and Serenity's Journal!

Posted by ActivistChat.com at October 11, 2004 05:00 PM

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