A reader writes:
You have never been willing to publicly address the fact that Arabs have not and cannot govern themselves in democratic fashion. And, you continue to hammer away at America with these cheap shots. American soldiers have not "precipitated genocide" in Iraq. American soldiers are not in Iraq blowing innocent people up. (And, if it happens that American soldiers are guilty of harming civilians, it was either an accident, or the aberrant behavior of a psychotic. I could go on for another paragraph qualifying this qualifying parenthetical comment, but I hope that’s not necessary. The point is, the overwhelming majority of American soldiers sincerely want to do the right thing.)
What cause is ever so ‘just’ that it requires the deliberate, calculated destruction of innocent human life? Suicide bombers were not precipitated by American soldiers. They were precipitated by a willing population of angry, desensitized Muslim fanatics, consumed with hatred for outsiders, for infidels, and eerily possessed by a longing for glory — and group sex — in the hereafter.
The Arab muslim logic has always been as follows: if you (meaning infidels) were not in our country, nothing bad would happen. Any American worker who has ever been in an accident in Saudi Arabia, and perhaps any other Arab country knows, that if they are involved in an automobile accident that they are guilty, even if it is patently obvious that the offending party was the native Arab.
We like to think of Iraqis as educated. Secular. That was no doubt part of the reason we decided to invade. Maybe these Arabs can be our friends, we thought. But that’s not going to happen. These Arabs will not, we have found, rat out their own. There are no laws outside of the extended Muslim family. And the sheikh rules that family. Individuals trapped in this feudal closet can never take it upon themselves to make a "citizen’s arrest" in the name of justice and humanity. That would be suicide.
And it would be as foolish a concept as trying to establish a democracy in an all-Islamic nation.
Free political discourse.
A vibrant economy.
Islam.Pick two.
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