President Bush’s courage, good nature and diplomacy were again on shining display recently in London. I can think of several points in the schedule when I would have given the demonstrators, and not a few members of British Parliament, a good piece of my mind. But that’s one reason why I’m not presidential material. The office requires an extraordinary amount of calm and tact in the face of opposition. Just as George W. Bush displayed great strength and faith in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, so he displayed a reasoned and respectful bearing during his entire state visit to England.
But it must be said that the anarchists, along with the genuinely peace-loving but misguided protest marchers, bear much of the responsibility for making the fight against terrorism increasingly difficult. The toppling of a very bad statue of George Bush was absurd, but you can bet it gave great comfort to the enemy to see those foolish people dancing around it as if they themselves had somehow risked something for the cause of freedom. No, all that actions like that achieve is to urge suicide bombers to obliterate innocent people in Istanbul in the hope of getting world support to swing in their favor. Thank God for men like George Bush and Tony Blair, who live in reality and in the belief that tyranny and terrorism are blood relatives.
And shame on Brit politicians for lecturing the American administration on what democracy looks like. Had we listened to their forefathers, we’d still have taxation without representation and redcoats stationed on every U.S. street corner. That we don’t is to the credit of our American forefathers who well knew what bad fish smelled like.
Let freedom ring!
Everett
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