May you live in interesting Times

Perusing the blogs and news, there is a lot of confusion in the world press about what this means and about what the Democrats will do, prompting Dante Chinni in the usually sedate Christian Science Monitor to remark that it might have been better if the MSM had discussed some of these issues before the election, not the day afterward.

Well, yes. Maybe we should have heard these issues instead of stories on polls and macaca...

But, as both Lou Dobbs and Mort Kondracke note that the real win was for the moderates, not the far left (Take heed, Nancy Pelosi)...

Terry Mattingly has a summary HERE on what Steven Waldman at BeliefNet calls the loss of the "God Gap":
Democrats will now need to prove themselves worthy of centrist religious voters by altering their views on some social issues and dispelling the image that they're hostile to faith.

As for Iraq, given the negative press, the war is unpopular. Yet the world worries about an American withdrawal, while the Arab press is hoping "American extremism" is slowed (read: defense of Israel).

Yet as Bill Roggio and the latest podcast on Instapundit both point out, a lot of these "changes" in Iraq policy have been in the planning for months.

But in the long run, it will mean the end of the Pax Americana, and a major blow to Israel. That should please the European and American progressives, at least until they notice their cars and buses are going up in flames...And in the wings? China's economic expansion into Central Asia and Africa.

As the saying goes, if you want to curse someone, you bless them by saying "God grant you live in interesting times".