Imploding Head Warning

Around a month ago Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show, said that if it turned out that Bush was right, his head would implode.

Last night, Stewart's guest was Nancy Soderburg, former U.S. Ambassador to the U. N. under Clinton and author of The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might.

Stewart hates Bush and Soderburg just wrote a book criticizing Bush's foreign policy. So what happened when they got together? First they talked about Lebanon then Stewart admitted that Bush seems to be getting unprecedented results. Soderburg admitted that she hates to see anything good happen under Republicans and that Bush cannot take credit for everything that is happening, but she admitted the Bush is getting results.

Stewart went on to say that he might have been for the invasion of Iraq if Bush had said ahead of time that this would bring democracy to the Middle East.

In fact, this was one of the big reasons push by the NeoCons prior to the war. They reasoned that the pressure of one functioning democracy in the Middle East would put pressure on the surrounding countries. Iraq was chosen for this because of the threat that Saddam represented. This was no secret. In fact it upset the Left quite a bit at the time. Now that things are playing out as the NeoCons predicted, this has been forgotten.

Not that the NeoCons are perfect. They expected a military victory in Iraq. Instead, Saddam's army folded and joined with Islamic extremists to launch a terrorist campaign. They also said that Iraqi oil would pay for the war so we could do it on the cheap. This was way off.

Still, the main point was to attack the root causes of anti-Americanism. Right now it seems to be working.

Earlier in the Daily Show, Stewart had commented on the protests in Lebanon and how strange it was to see them protesting someone besides the US. Here's a different example - Iraqis protesting against the car bomber who killed a crowd of civilians on Monday. They have good reason to protest. Muslim acts of terrorism are much more likely to kill fellow Muslims than anyone else. I don't remember George Washington killing crowds of American civilians in order to defeat the British.

Oh - both Bush and Condi Rice have been pressuring Syria to get out of Lebanon.

So we have ended up on the same side on many current issues as the average Arab.

The sound you just heard is Jon Stewart's head imploding.

UPDATE: Here's a transcript.