Luckily, The Same Old America

In the end, when we really need the Cavalry, the appalling, ignorant and arrogant Texan cowboy, George W. Bush, is the only one to defend the helpless, to help the abandoned, to support democracy and freedom when they are in danger.

All the others talk, fiddle, ask themselves whether to travel to Beijing or not, pose as thoughtful followers of Realpolitik doctrines that they don’t even know, and only use to mask their chronic incapacity to rally in support of the right side of the story.

Yes, there is always a right side of the story, especially when we talk about freedom of speech, religion, and movement. When it comes to topple dictatorships around the world, to finance AIDS programs in Africa, to report violations of human rights in China, to struggle for freedom of worship in Asia, to feed Pakistani and Egyptian people, to protect Israel from apocalyptic nuclear threats, to rebuild this or that area, to help newly-formed ex-Soviet democracies in not letting Bonapartist Vladimir Putin gobble them up, the voice of American President Bush is the only one in tune.

Surely we can’t hear the voice of so-called pacifists, always ready to act as human shields for despots around the world with their colorful, cheerful, wonderful demonstrations against USA every time it makes an effort to topple a dictator (with hard or soft power, it doesn’t matter). Besides, they are as always incapable of criticizing an authoritarian regime that first stirs up and then attacks a free sovereign nation, which is well-intentioned to free itself from Moscow neoczarist chains.

Yesterday at the White House Rose Garden, Bush told in the clearest possible way that Russia must put an end to the crisis, just like he did last week with Chinese leaders to make them respect human rights. In the same way he has always asked Iranian mullahs to free their people and told Iraqis, the Lebanese, Georgians, Ukrainians and dissidents around the world to soldier on, because sooner or later, that’s for sure, some kind of Cavalry will come. Soon Bush will leave the 7th Cavalry Regiment, his place taken by either John McCain or Barack Obama. Nevertheless, they’re Americans, too.