Uncomfortable truths

It has become something of an article of faith among the anti-war crowd that any action by the US in Iraq creates scores of terrorists. Our bungling ineptitude enrages the Arab/Muslim street and our enemies multiply endlessly. Or not. That noted neocon organ The New York Times has an article:


“I hate Islam and all the clerics because they limit our freedom every day and their instruction became heavy over us,” said Sara, a high school student in Basra. “Most of the girls in my high school hate that Islamic people control the authority because they don’t deserve to be rulers.”

Atheer, a 19-year-old from a poor, heavily Shiite neighborhood in southern Baghdad, said: “The religion men are liars. Young people don’t believe them. Guys my age are not interested in religion anymore.”

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“I used to love Osama bin Laden...Al Qaeda and the Mahdi Army are spreading hatred. People are being killed for nothing.”


So we're winning by not being the iron clamp of oppression and death in the region. The hardest hearts have softened. If the radical clerics have lost the youth of Iraq to freedom and liberty they've lost the future. Similarly, their control of the present is unstable and may not last too long either.

Comments

Paul Smith Jr. said…
"And now we play the waiting game.



This game sucks! Let's play Hungry, Hungry Hippos!"

--Homer Simpson
mkfreeberg said…
They don't want you to take that argument TOO seriously, you know.

If you believe our war on terror is creating more terrorists, you have to at least consider the idea that our war on poverty might be...........?

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