Ted Cruz Said Something Controversial. He Was Actually Right.

The world is divided into good and evil. It is time we said it clearly: some regimes are simply wicked, and others are just. Ted Cruz was right, the collapse of evil regimes in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba is undeniably good.

Yes, the U.S. mishandled the post-Cold War era. Interventions in Serbia, Afghanistan, and Iraq involved nations of negligible strategic importance compared to Iran. These failed attempts at regime change traumatized America. They led to the mistaken belief that any collapse of a tyranny is a disaster, even when it comes from within.

A strange new isolationism has ridden this wave of trauma. It argues that we must never tip the scales of good versus evil. It rejects even Trump’s approach, which uses minimal military means to help liberate nations, because of past failures.

But we are in a new iteration of history. First: Regimes are falling, or teetering, with much greater ease. Second: No invasion is necessary. Third: The people themselves are rising up.

These are scenarios we did not see in Afghanistan or Iraq, and certainly not during the "Arab Spring", which ultimately curdled into a Tyrannical Spring.

The Cuban regime may have only months left. The Venezuelan regime has collapsed. And the Iranian regime has been shaken and continues to destabilize.

Anyone who wishes to cling to the post-modern "truth", new on the Right and old on the Left—which claims that all power is morally equivalent, is welcome to do so. But I doubt the residents of these countries have been gifted the privilege of thinking that way.

On the contrary, this mindset is merely the luxury of a satiated, spoiled West. It is the delusion of a society so lost in its own freedom that it is incapable of looking with compassion at the suffering of other nations without shouting "double standard."

The regime in Cuba is likely to survive only a few more months. The regime in Venezuela has already crumbled. And the regime in Iran has been undermined and continues to teeter.

Those who wish to maintain the post-modern narrative, whether the new version from the Right or the old version from the Left, arguing that all wielders of power are equal in moral quality, are free to do so. However, it is doubtful that the citizens of these nations are endowed with the privilege to share that view.

If anything, this is a psychological byproduct of a pampered and glutted West. A West so adrift in its own liberty that it cannot gaze with empathy upon the plight of other peoples without invoking a double standard.