The Disappointed

A good opinion piece in the Telegraph (UK) explains how the left-wing commentators in Europe have disproportionately reported on the horrific acts in Iraq while omitting the positive (it would be safe to say the same for the old media in the U.S.). Now, it appears many are disappointed by today's election:

That elections are a better thing than tyranny seems a truth so obvious as not to be worth stating. Yet such were the passions aroused by the Iraq war that many Western observers now find themselves hoping, disgracefully, that that country's first free poll will fail.

Left-wing commentators, in Britain as in much of Europe, have focused disproportionately on the difficulties that any state must undergo during a transition process. To many of them, every terrorist bomb, every murdered election official, every sign of heightened military alertness - even the loss of a British aircraft - makes a nonsense of Iraq's democratic aspirations.

Be sure to read the entire piece. The bitter reaction of so many that Iraq may be on the road to freedom is a mind boggling thing.