Freedom
Today’s events in Lebanon are the latest in a trend that promises to re-shape the Middle East.
In Iraq, elections were held at the end of January that have elected a government of the Iraqi people’s own choosing.
In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak has opened to the door to democratic elections.
In Palestine, Prime Minister Abbas has re-itereated that attacks on Israel must cease and that the chance for peace genuinely exists.
And it only has been just over a month since President Bush proclaimed:
We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the longing of the soul. When our Founders declared a new order of the ages; when soldiers died in wave upon wave for a union based on liberty; when citizens marched in peaceful outrage under the banner “Freedom Now” – they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled. History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction, set by liberty and the Author of Liberty.
Prophetic, no?
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