… but there might be more optimism about Iraq in Bangkok than in Zabar’s.
Roger L. Simon
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1. Jamie Irons:Roger,
Allow me to make two bold predictions:
(1) The Iraqis will approve the new constitution in their referendum tomorrow (which happens to be the birthday of our twin sons, doubly propitious!). Even the Sunni provinces will not reject it.
(2)The New York Times will bury, minimize, distort and under-report this overwhelmingly significant event in the Middle East.
OK, my predictions aren’t that bold. Any reasonable person reading sources from the center to center-right of the blogosphere would come to the same conclusion.
Jamie Irons
Oct 14, 2005 - 7:44 am 2. Peter G.:It is rather amazing that this vote is expected to generate great turnout, after all the predictions of disaster for the January vote, and experts like Juan Cole predicting no more than 4 million voters (they got around 8 million, as I recall). The political process has come a long way in Iraq over the past year. The only downside to greater expectations is that it’s easier to spin the outcome as bad news (”Only 10 million showed up to vote, a true setback for the Iraqi people …”)
Jamie Irons, I like how your post ends up right next to an ad for foreign policy.com that reads, “Juan Cole on the broken process & why the US should get out now.” I suspect Professor Cole has already written about his take on the results of the Iraq vote.
Oct 14, 2005 - 8:18 am 3. Jamie Irons:Peter G.
Well, like most on the Left, Professor Cole really does have a crystal ball. When he consults it, it invariably predicts “Whatever America does, it will come out bad for the rest of the world,” and whatever happens, he will always be “right,” with plenty of “reasons” to prove why he is “right.”
Jamie Irons
Oct 14, 2005 - 8:26 am 4. Jamie Irons:I don’t see why I shouldn’t have a crystal ball of my own…
Jamie Irons
Oct 14, 2005 - 9:21 am