What Is Wrong with Iraqis?
The Iraqi turnout for the election on 30 January 2005 impressed the world, even the French. Despite very real existential threats, Iraqis came in droves. Except for a few incidents, Iraqis voted without the promised violence against them. Afterward, they danced in the streets. They tasted the second dose of freedom since the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Two weeks later, bad guys drive car bombs into crowds of Iraqis and kill them. They fire rocket propelled grenades and mortars. Iraqis die wholesale.
During the election, automobiles could not access public gathering places. Three rings of security protected the populace in population centers. The inner and middle circles, the Iraqi troops cordoned in order to protect the people, with the USA forces on the outer, and not-very-visible ring.
During the peri-election period, Iraqis experienced great civil peace. The causes were blatantly evident. Why did they resume the old, dangerous ways after the election? Not only are there no answers, but even the question seems unraised.
But that issue is minor compared to the really big issue. Having tasted civil peace, why are the Iraqis not turning in the bad guys and/or killing them outright? In one town south of Baghdad, the citizens did just that. They killed and captured bad guys who had come to punish them for voting. In Mosul, a captured bad guy was put on television to beg for his life. Why have these processes not multiplied throughout Iraq?
Major General Robert Scales, USA (Ret.), a Fox News military consultant, made it very clear in the peri-election period that the "insurgency" will end WHEN THE PEOPLE TIRE OF IT AND ACTIVELY OPPOSE IT by all means available. It ALWAYS WORKS THIS WAY.
Why are Iraqis not rebelling against the "insurgents"?
One major reason comes from Islam itself which infests Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites. Islam is deterministic, or, put another way, is fatalistic. This process describes a major component of Arab thinking, and Arabic and Islam are inseparable molders of Arab minds.
Whatever happens, says this determinism, is Allah's will. Humans can neither cause it, stop it, or change it in any way. The only choice open to humans is whether or not they will accept these inevitabilities, called Allah's will.
Determinism has sapped human independence throughout Islamia for over 14 centuries. It dominates all of their thinking, even non-Arabs who convert to Islam.
This is just another reason demonstrating that we are fighting the wrong war over there. We are fighting peripheral issues, such as "terrorism." We are not fighting the cause of absolutely all of the problems in the Middle East and those the Middle East tries to inflict on the civilized world.
That cause is Islam. The war should be to eradicate Islam.
Two weeks later, bad guys drive car bombs into crowds of Iraqis and kill them. They fire rocket propelled grenades and mortars. Iraqis die wholesale.
During the election, automobiles could not access public gathering places. Three rings of security protected the populace in population centers. The inner and middle circles, the Iraqi troops cordoned in order to protect the people, with the USA forces on the outer, and not-very-visible ring.
During the peri-election period, Iraqis experienced great civil peace. The causes were blatantly evident. Why did they resume the old, dangerous ways after the election? Not only are there no answers, but even the question seems unraised.
But that issue is minor compared to the really big issue. Having tasted civil peace, why are the Iraqis not turning in the bad guys and/or killing them outright? In one town south of Baghdad, the citizens did just that. They killed and captured bad guys who had come to punish them for voting. In Mosul, a captured bad guy was put on television to beg for his life. Why have these processes not multiplied throughout Iraq?
Major General Robert Scales, USA (Ret.), a Fox News military consultant, made it very clear in the peri-election period that the "insurgency" will end WHEN THE PEOPLE TIRE OF IT AND ACTIVELY OPPOSE IT by all means available. It ALWAYS WORKS THIS WAY.
Why are Iraqis not rebelling against the "insurgents"?
One major reason comes from Islam itself which infests Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites. Islam is deterministic, or, put another way, is fatalistic. This process describes a major component of Arab thinking, and Arabic and Islam are inseparable molders of Arab minds.
Whatever happens, says this determinism, is Allah's will. Humans can neither cause it, stop it, or change it in any way. The only choice open to humans is whether or not they will accept these inevitabilities, called Allah's will.
Determinism has sapped human independence throughout Islamia for over 14 centuries. It dominates all of their thinking, even non-Arabs who convert to Islam.
This is just another reason demonstrating that we are fighting the wrong war over there. We are fighting peripheral issues, such as "terrorism." We are not fighting the cause of absolutely all of the problems in the Middle East and those the Middle East tries to inflict on the civilized world.
That cause is Islam. The war should be to eradicate Islam.
posted by George Mason @ 2/12/2005 10:00:00 AM
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