remember that in american-ese, 'liberal' = leftist, and democrat = Labor or Greens. Or both
"Christopher Hitchins is, perhaps wisely, more cautious than I am about Iraq’s future, but some good signs makes him concede:
(I)t nonetheless does begin to look as if Iraqis may in fact have started to recover command over their own destiny, and also as if America may have helped them to do so.
He concludes:
I am not at all certain that any of this apparently good news is really genuine or will be really lasting. However, I am quite sure both that it could be true and that it would be wonderful if it were to be true.
**What worries me about the reaction of liberals and Democrats is not the skepticism, which is pardonable, but the dank and sinister impression they give that the worse the tidings, the better they would be pleased. The latter mentality isn’t pardonable and ought not to be pardoned, either.**"
