Democracy Expands in the Middle East

Ask someone who was around during VE or VJ day. They’ll remember what happened on those days. My Dad was only seven and he remembers. The Iraqi elections are as significant to our generation as the close of World War II was to the past generation, yet our nation seems ignorant of that fact. Fifteen million people, or 70 percent of the electorate, voted in a new Middle East democracy! While that fact has been reported (or even downplayed) the significance has yet to enter the national consciousness. One day it will; are you going to remember, then, the events of this week?