THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume V, Issue # 307, December 26, 2003
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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WHAT ARE THE ARABS SAYING ABOUT US TODAY?
By Alan Caruba
Oh, please, let’s not make the “Arabs” angry at us. What horrible things are being said about us in “the Arab street” today?
I’m thinking these are the people who are responsible for the latest “high alert” to guard against another terror attack on America,
the disruptions to domestic and international travel, and the continued attacks on our troops in Iraq. These are the people causing
me and 280 million other Americans a lot of grief. Please note, however, the term “Arab” here refers to Muslim Arabs, not Christian
Arabs.
Why do we keep hearing about how important it is to “reach out” to the Arabs and explain to them our good intentions, when it is
evident that (1) their bone-deep hatred of the West is immune to a rational response, (2) Arabs are the worst soldiers on the face of
the earth, contemptable swine capable only of barbaric, terroristic sneak attacks that often involve killing themselves, as well as
some enemy soldiers and many innocent civilians, and (3) the more we use our military power to suppress the Arabs' worst
instincts, the safer we are.
Our national security took a giant leap forward when Saddam Hussein and his regime was toppled, and now it turns out that, as our
military gathered to invade Iraq, Libya’s dictator, Muammar Khadaffi, was opening negotiations with U.S. diplomats to end Libya’s
program of WMDs. Are we safer now? You bet!
Too many Arabs were more concerned that Saddam Hussein was “humiliated” by his capture than the fact that he was a monster
responsible for the deaths of millions of Muslims, either through war with Iran and Kuwait, or the terror he waged against Iraqis
and Kurds. Saddam, the "great hero" to far too many Arabs, was unmasked for the loathsome coward he truly was, thus losing his
charisma as a Muslim “leader” who “stood up against” the terrible Americans who liberated Iraq.
Let it be said, however, that some Arab intellectuals do understand what is happening. Writing in the December 18 edition of the
Saudi daily, Arab News, columnist Dr. Muhammad Al-Rasheed wrote, “The jubilation in Baghdad put the Arab media to
shame. America, for this brief moment at least…is a liberator and not an occupier,” adding, “The reality we have to face is the fact
that it took Americans to relieve Baghdad of its dictator. Arab impotence recorded a new low.”
Americans keep thinking that, if we can only demonstrate we are trying to help them, Arabs will love us. No, they won’t. For the
Arabs, America and the Jews are the sole reason for all their problems. Sometimes, I think the term “moderate Arab” is an oxymoron.
Among those who attacked America on 9-11, were highly educated Saudis. Their education did nothing to deter them, nor did the
time they spent among us, enjoying the freedom we extend to all our citizens and visitors. They still chose to kill themselves in
order to kill more than 3,000 Americans.
Palestinians, who could have had their own nation-state in 1968, in 1979, at several points throughout the 1980s, and in 2000,
rejected that opportunity in favor of continued attacks on Israeli civilians on buses, in restaurants, and anywhere else they could
kill them. That decision has nothing to do with rationality and everything to do with the superstitious and downright nutty,
psychotic notion that Allah will insure that true-believing Muslims prevail over their enemies. The Arab “neighbors” of Israel
made war against the Jewish nation on five separate occasions and were defeated every time. Egypt had to sue for peace just to
get the Sinai Peninsula back. To end their attacks on Israeli civilians, Palestinians will be walled behind their enclaves because
diplomacy has yielded only corpses.
In 1991, a U.S.-led coalition drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait with little effort and, in 2003, we finished the job, arriving in Baghdad so
swiftly that most Americans were surprised at the lack of resistance offered. They shouldn’t have been. Within eight months, we
had captured the dictator, Saddam Hussein, found hiding in a hole in the ground. In the previous year, we had driven most of the
Taliban out of Afghanistan.
So, now we have our troops where they can threaten the Syrian Arabs if they don’t behave, along with a growing number of
military bases in many of the Arab nations of the region. Who are we afraid of? Certainly not these people! Writing about U.S.
troops in Iraq, Karl Zinsmeister, the Editor-in-Chief of The American Enterprise, says “These are the worst men imaginable
to have as military enemies and the very best to surrender to.”
Let Arabs continue to say it is all an Anglo-American plot to control their oil. The mass graves of Saddam’s victims still cry out
for justice. Throughout the Arab Middle East, constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and liberty and justice under law are still
scarce in both quality and quantity.
Yes, there continues to be a threat of terrorism, but after 9-11, there has not been a single incident, with the exception of the use
of the anthrax that killed a few more innocent victims. We rolled up a terrorist cell in Lackawanna, N.Y., have some bad guys
squared away in Guantanamo, and have passed legislation warning Syria to desist from sponsoring terrorist groups and to get
out of Lebanon.
For too many Arabs, it still doesn’t matter that U.S. troops have gone in harm’s way to protect or liberate them. It doesn’t matter
that we have sent billions in foreign aid to Egypt, and Jordan, and now for the reconstruction of Iraq. It doesn’t matter that
humanitarian organizations are eager to aid Iraqis. Recent Islamic targets have been the U.N., erroneously seen to be in
control of the Americans and British, and, for inexplicable reasons, a Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad.
The Arabs’ fellow Muslims have blown up vacationers in Bali and tourists in Kenya, killed civilians in Moscow, assaulted
compounds for foreigners living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, waged attacks in Morocco, Bombay and Indonesia, murdered Jews in
Turkey, and are broadening their attacks on Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe. They are the Muslims who hate Christians,
Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists. Oh, please, let’s not get them angry!
As far as the Arabs of the Middle East are concerned, the West is in their midst solely to get their oil. You know what? They’re
right. You know what else? We in the West have spent billions of dollars to purchase their oil. And you know what their
“leaders” did with much the oil money they obtained from us? They built vast armies, none of which found any glory on the
battlefields where Muslims fought Muslims, as was the case of the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran. Let us not forget that
Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait was about oil!
When not spending millions on tanks and missiles, Arab “leaders” stole the oil riches that would have paid for an infrastructure
to provide electricity and clean water. Iraq’s infrastructure, damaged during the Gulf War, had less priority than more palaces for
Saddam. Arabs have the benefits of modernity without any of the benefits of individual freedom, or constitutionally guaranteed
and protected human rights. Not one single church can be built in Saudi Arabia, but some two thousand mosques have been
built in America! The treatment of Christians and other non-Muslim religions in Muslim nations is an offense to humanity.
Some small change toward democratic reform is occurring in Bahrain and other Middle Eastern nations, but not enough to make
any Arab understand that radical Islam is the problem, not the answer. If you doubt this, you need only listen to the words of
Osama bin Laden who has repeatedly said he is leading a religious war, declaring Islam incompatible with democracy. He’s
wrong. Turkey, a Muslim state, long ago transformed itself into a secular, democratic nation when it took political power from its
clerics.
It is not enough for the modern Arab to know how to use a cell phone or access the Internet. It is more important they
understand these inventions are not intended to be weapons for the spread of Islamic terror.
Civilization is not about suicide-murderers. It is not about the subjugation of one half of the population because they are female.
Slavery has been abolished in modern nations, but continues in some Muslim ones. It is not one-party government or passing
leadership from father to son, as in the case of Syria and what appears soon to be the case in Egypt. It is not enough to talk of
tolerance. It is essential to actually practice tolerance.
When I think of Arabs, I think of their inordinate, arrogant, and obscene belief in their moral superiority. I think of their socalled
leaders shouting insults at one another during their conferences. I think of the arrested adolescence they embrace in the name
of Islam. I think of the Arab perversion of the concept of “honor” to justify rape, torture, war, and crimes against humanity.
Americans still haven’t a clue regarding the outlook of Middle Eastern Arabs and are continually astonished to find that it is
more rooted in the seventh century than the twenty-first. What are the Arabs saying about us? Nothing that makes much sense.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Middle East & the Arabs
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
The Middle East & the Problem of Syria
The Israeli-Arab Conflict
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past col- umns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Na- tions vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maplewood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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