Dissident President

George W. Bush has the courage
to speak out for freedom.

by Natan Sharansky - Monday, April 24, 2006 - The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal)

Now that President Bush is increasingly alone in pushing for freedom, I can only hope that his dissident spirit will continue to persevere. For should that spirit break, evil will indeed triumph, and the consequences for our world would be disastrous.

I really don't agree with George Bush on immigration. However he is the best President we could hope for on the issue of islamofascism, the single most important issue of our times. From the first he has pursued a reasoned campaign to democratize the middle east, even when his own party did not support him. No article could make this case more powerfully than this article by Natan Sharansky. I only hope his supporters on the left do not turn on Sharansky as they have turned on Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair, two other noted liberals who understand and support the importance of Bush's commitment to democracy and freedom.

If democracy does not get established in the middle east, we will see nuclear bombs going off in America. It is this simple premise that most concerns many of us. Iran, and the other middle eastern states, are dominated by people unlike the rulers of Russia back when we faced nuclear war on a daily basis. There were always enough rational people in Russia, and the motivations of the soviet rulers were always surriciently personally based, that bringing down the world was not a high priority. The islamofascists do not see it this way.

If nuclear bombs do start going off here in America, it will not be because of George Bush. The liberals and progressives of the democrat party are the ones who are giving these middle eastern terrorists the hope of facing a weak and waffling America ruled by pacifists. It is the dream of winning which fuels their hate.