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To: kumar who wrote (20827)	12/21/2003 4:34:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793738

David Warren ends the year in full jeremiad mode: The obvious "big event" of 2003 -- the events leading to and through the invasion of Iraq, capped with the capture of Saddam -- was probably not the most consequential. And the image of the year -- the fall of the dictator's statue in Baghdad -- is unlikely to have pointed the moral. My own extremely fallible intuition is that, if anything, this war and this image concealed the main event. To my mind, the real story was in the opposition to this war, and how it persisted and developed in Europe and North America even after Iraq had been liberated from its tyrant. That will be the "developing story" in 2004 and years to come -- how the West has turned against its own ideals, and grows increasingly ashamed, even of its own most obvious accomplishments. For all we know, what we witnessed in 2003 was not the defeat of an Arab tyrant, but the last prop snapping in the edifice of the West. www.davidwarrenonline.com My own belief is closer to one of Jonah Goldberg's flip assemssements of the Euros, which went something like this: "The Europeans think they have achieved an internal peace. They think you get peace by talking about it. It seems to work inside Europe. They have forgotten how they got there."