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2005-08-20 Terror Networks & Islam

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-08-20 04:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, if I believe this guy, there might be some good that could've come out of it, but it wasn't accomplished they way *I* wanted it, and have been preaching it, and *I* can't be *wrong*, so anyway, it's all about oiloiloiloil. How else could Amerika have gotten that cheap $64 a barrel oiloiloiloil? Not to mention that $2.75 a gallon gasoiloiloil.

Posted by Al Lefti Dumbo 2005-08-20 08:18|| 2005-08-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#2 This is interesting in that he hits on the true nature of the problem, BDS compounded by USDS in the Arab world, on top of the lack of a desire among the elites for anything resembling freedom.

The idea that the U.S. has stumbled in Iraq is only really true if your expectation and measurement is perfection. The "Iraq as Denmark in 90 days" metaphor.

His "Even assuming that carelessness long ago derailed American democratization ambitions in Iraq...." implies that it was NOT carelessness on our part that has caused the problem.

The problem is that, apparently, the people don't really care about freedom. His ending sentence sums it all up well. "An inability to marshal change for one's benefit is the stuff of captive minds."

Arab liberals aren't, at least in the Western sense. They have no particular committment to abstract principles like freedom and individual worth, so they blew their best chance.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-08-20 09:51|| 2005-08-20 09:51|| Front Page Top

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