The Rest Of The World Gets It

The Rest Of The World Gets It

It appears that it is the tin foil beanie wing of the Democratic party that is now out of step with the rest of the world. While Howard Dean stands by his outrageous claim that America is no safer since the capture of Saddam Hussein and Wesley Clark insists that the credit for Moammar Kadhafi's acquiescence belongs to Bill Clinton, the rest of the world credits the Bush Doctrine.

"After the demythologization Saddam Hussein, this is the second Christmas present American President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have put under their Christmas tree," said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a leading German daily that was critical of the U.S. war in Iraq. Libya's move "shows that opponents of the Iraq war were premature in saying that America's war on terror would prompt so-called rogue states to start developing weapons of mass destruction."

In France, Le Monde credits the claims of Bush supporters that U.S. policy is making traditional adversaries like Iran and Libya more cooperative.

"Without the American military occupation of Iraq, the diplomatic action of Berlin, London and Paris would not have had as much impact in Tehran. And the fall of Saddam Hussein without doubt counted in Gaddafi's turnabout."