No Friends
Is it possible to have Moslem allies? Not likely, according to Christopher Orlet.
He sites numerous examples of how our ``allies`` in the War on Terror routinely double cross us, and statistics proving that few, if any, Moslems have a good view of the United States.
For example:
EGYPT IS ANOTHER so-called friend who is an ally in name only. An impressive 98 percent of Egyptians surveyed have an "unfavorable attitude" toward the U.S., according to a Zogby poll. Perhaps Egyptians hate the U.S. so much because their military is the second largest recipient of American foreign aid, which tends to be used to prop up a double-dealing dictatorship that encourages the spread of anti-American propaganda ("vicious and loony lies," according to James Glassman of the American Enterprise) which tends to feed Muslim extremism.
This is an astounding figure, and comes near to approaching unfavorable views of the United States held by registered Democrats. Still, it is part of a pattern, one which is repeated over and over in the Islamic world, but not in many other places. Certainly we are loved in Sub-Saharan Africa by the non-Moslem populace. Ditto in the former Soviet orb. The question should not be ``why do they hate us?`` but ``why do Moslems hate us?``
They hate us because we represent the force which restrains the rise of World Islam. They see us as the last bastion of Christendom, the thief who stole their rightful heritage of world domination. Moslems have always believed their destiny is to rule in the Kingdom of Allah, and we have kept them from this with our fighter jets and GPS systems. That their own ways of doing things gave them a backward, powerless life never occurs to them; their glory must have been stolen by those evil Christians and Jews. America has kept them down! She is the Great Satan!
THAT is why I fear the idea of Democracy will be lost on this part of the world, and why Bush`s plans are destined to fail; this isn`t a top-down problem, but a grass-roots one. These people may want more from their governments, but they don`t understand the value of Democracy, and they DO understand the old maxim that ``power flows from the barrel of a gun`` as Chairman Mao put it. There is no willingness to submit to consensus, no willingness to compromise in the world ruled by Islam, and the populace itself is where the problem lies. They either have to be completely beaten militarily, beaten to where they understand they can no longer live by their 7th century warrior virtues, or some sort of dramatic spiritual awakening must occur among the people themselves. I fear we don`t have the stomach for the former; the latter is out of our hands.
We must get our heads out of the sand, and quickly, if we are to avoid walking the broad and easy path to doom.
Christopher Orlet is right.
He sites numerous examples of how our ``allies`` in the War on Terror routinely double cross us, and statistics proving that few, if any, Moslems have a good view of the United States.
For example:
EGYPT IS ANOTHER so-called friend who is an ally in name only. An impressive 98 percent of Egyptians surveyed have an "unfavorable attitude" toward the U.S., according to a Zogby poll. Perhaps Egyptians hate the U.S. so much because their military is the second largest recipient of American foreign aid, which tends to be used to prop up a double-dealing dictatorship that encourages the spread of anti-American propaganda ("vicious and loony lies," according to James Glassman of the American Enterprise) which tends to feed Muslim extremism.
This is an astounding figure, and comes near to approaching unfavorable views of the United States held by registered Democrats. Still, it is part of a pattern, one which is repeated over and over in the Islamic world, but not in many other places. Certainly we are loved in Sub-Saharan Africa by the non-Moslem populace. Ditto in the former Soviet orb. The question should not be ``why do they hate us?`` but ``why do Moslems hate us?``
They hate us because we represent the force which restrains the rise of World Islam. They see us as the last bastion of Christendom, the thief who stole their rightful heritage of world domination. Moslems have always believed their destiny is to rule in the Kingdom of Allah, and we have kept them from this with our fighter jets and GPS systems. That their own ways of doing things gave them a backward, powerless life never occurs to them; their glory must have been stolen by those evil Christians and Jews. America has kept them down! She is the Great Satan!
THAT is why I fear the idea of Democracy will be lost on this part of the world, and why Bush`s plans are destined to fail; this isn`t a top-down problem, but a grass-roots one. These people may want more from their governments, but they don`t understand the value of Democracy, and they DO understand the old maxim that ``power flows from the barrel of a gun`` as Chairman Mao put it. There is no willingness to submit to consensus, no willingness to compromise in the world ruled by Islam, and the populace itself is where the problem lies. They either have to be completely beaten militarily, beaten to where they understand they can no longer live by their 7th century warrior virtues, or some sort of dramatic spiritual awakening must occur among the people themselves. I fear we don`t have the stomach for the former; the latter is out of our hands.
We must get our heads out of the sand, and quickly, if we are to avoid walking the broad and easy path to doom.
Christopher Orlet is right.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 6:01 AM
2 Comments:
So here is the math: I work. I pay taxes. Government sends taxes to Egypt. Egypt sends mobs into the Cairene streets proclaiming "Death to America! Death to Israel!" Bone-ignorant spittle-flecked fanatic listens and blows himself up in an Israeli pizza parlor.
Got it.
Moslem allies? When did that happen? I would even prefer France as an ally---but thank God we do just fine withour either.
Ask any American soldier if he would like a Saudi or an Egyptian watching his back.
WHEN will the West get a clue??
Muslims by the very nature of their beliefs are our *sworn* enemies. A true Muslim is an enemy of the West. and all others (so-called peaceful) are apostates of their religion, according to the Koran.
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