Afghanistan election is held amid... peace!

All reports are that the election was held without terrorist attacks, without shooting, with nothing but a little inter-party squabbling. Go to Instapundit for great links -- and photos!

This is a good sign for the future of Iraq. If the Afghanis could do it, so can the Iraqis. Do you remember before the invasion of Afghanistan? Remember all the predictions of "quagmire"? Defeat? Humiliation before the fierce Afghani and Taliban fighters? Remember all the gloom and doom about how the Russians spent their blood and treasure for years and never could defeat the Afghanis? And so we obviously wouldn't be able to either? What, you don't remember?

Well then read this, and take heart. The nay-sayers were wrong about Afghanistan -- amazingly, monumentally, head-smackingly wrong -- and they'll be just as wrong about Iraq.

You want more examples of how wrong they were about Afghanistan? Then read here and here (originally from Glenn Reynolds, a couple years back!) and here.

Then, heave a sigh of relief that they were all so stupendously wrong, and raise a toast to the free men and women of Afghanistan.