American academia and elites will never give Bush credit for starting the movement toward democratization in the Middle East. They will continue to heap him with abuse in every journal and every PBS outlet; the EU slugs will never admit they stood by while history passed them; it will be the new scholars in a democratized Middle East who will recognize him as their Abraham Lincoln.
It is becoming likely that the Bush policy---and the American dead---will be remembered for bringing the people in the Middle East into their governments. We may not have a type of democracy that is right for them, but the way the politicians in Iraq are compromising to achieve a common goal has to be seen to be believed. I've never been convinced that Iraqis wanted democracy at all, but it is clear that I was dead wrong. The success of this enterprise, which will be the wedge driven between Iran and Syria, will change the entire Mid-East, including change in Saudi Arabia which may cut off the oil supply to the west. We are living in a time of fundamental changes in the world, changes which our president has started in motion. The campus elites will never give him credit and the historians, communist to their rotten cores, will continue to heap abuse on him. My thinking is that it will be the new scholars from the Middle East who will recognize him for what he has clearly started. It's a shame that the entire country won't recognize Bush because they, like the welfare state hobos in Europe, just want to be taken care of by our government and they don't think spreading democracy is our business.

They should read the U.S. Constitution, still the most revolutionary document written since the Bible and Koran.