It is the nature of man to be free.

Such a simple idea, yet so powerful. It was understood by President Reagan, it is understood by President Bush. Both men will go down in history as great world leaders who sparked events which will, in the end, lead to the liberation of hundreds of millions, if not a billion or more co-travelers on this little blue ball.

In Mr. Reagan's case it was victory in the Cold War and the downfall of the Soviet Union. In Mr. Bush's case it will be ultimate vitory in the War on Terror and the downfall of the Butcher of Baghdad.

As I type this two extraordinary events are unfolding, events heretofore impossible.

The first is the stunning news out of Cairo that legitimate and free elections will take place in that country. Western media have been reporting Egyptian man on the street reaction all weekend. Those Egyptians feeling free to make political statements that would have previously sealed their fate in that authoritarian nation.

The second is reminiscent of the day the Berlin Wall came down. Tens of thousands of Lebanese are pouring into the streets and have forced their entire Syrian-backed puppet government to resign. Damascus must now face the prospect of the people turning on the 14,000 Syrian occupation troops in Lebanon, there to enforce the Syrian iron-fist and prop up their (Syria's) hand picked goons.

As Walid Phares said on my KFBK (1530 AM) show a couple of weeks ago, the liberation of Iraq has uncorked a genie – an appropriate metaphor if ever there was one – that cannot be stuffed back into the lamp.

As I have argued for years; the people of the Middle East have been mired in savagery. This culture of savagery has been orchestrated by the religious leaders of a 7th Century death-cult called “Islam” , which as resisted all evolution into a genuine religion, with the help of despots and genocidal freaks who both kept the mullahs in power, and were kept in power by those same mullahs.

Now the Purple Finger of Freedom is sweeping through the streets of these cultures, awakening the power within those previously considered powerless.

We can still lose. If we lose our nerve and fail keep the Bomb out of Allah's hands while he resides with Satan for example. But if we, and those people in the streets prevail Mussolini will soon have plenty of company, and Muslims may finally be standing on the dawn of a day when “Allah be Praised” is not a euphemism for “let’s go blow up some children”


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Mark Williams
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