Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid

Yesterday Charles Krauthammer wrote about some of the effects of President Bush's actions in the Middle East. I blogged about it here and talked specifically about the "people power" argument.

Jonah Goldberg addresses the argument again today. He addresses the concept of the "reality based community" that the left has balleyhooed since Ron Susskind was quoted in the NY Times magazine last year. The money-quote:

"Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid," proclaimed the writer Dorothea Brande (though the movie Almost Famous attributes the line to Goethe). In the Middle East there had long been unseen forces that are now suddenly visible because the president acted boldly. That doesn't mean he deserves all of the credit, of course. But it's impossible to imagine that we'd be seeing this bloom if Bush had not tilled the soil.

Unless of course you think that Lebanese citizens, after 30 years of being repressed would spontaneously rise up against a hegemonic power that has violently trampled their rights whenever it suited them. Personally, I don't.