Bomb, Bomb, Everywhere A Bomb
Yesterday’s top news article on Yahoo was “Car Bomb Kill 22 at Baghdad Market.” Now I may be presuming too much but wasn’t that the top article on the Yahoo new page pretty much every day for the past 2 months. I have gotten to the point where I am just saturated with terrorists in Iraq setting off bombs to kill Iraqi citizens. I barely even notice when the article touts that “X” number of people were killed in some Iraqi city. Unless it specifically states that Americans were killed, I really don’t see it anymore. Somehow, I think that whatever the terrorists are trying to accomplish, the American people have moved back to what is important to them. That is them, of course.
I realize that there is a certain amount of ideological difference between some of the Moslem sects, but it can’t be that they are trying to kill each other off. It would end up like the Godfather, with opposing sides escalating the fight until it became an obscene bloodbath. Again, since I am not a student of the culture, I could be very mistaken. I realize that there are at least three sides to the equation. You have the Kurds in the north with the huge oil fields that just want to be left alone. You have the two opposing Moslem sects, one a minority that was ruling with Saddam Hussein and the other the majority that has gained the upper hand in the recently held elections. One questions whether they will ever learn to get along considering their long history of not getting along. It comes down to which side will get enough power to eventually oppress the other. Not a pretty picture but it is the one that America and the World are actually seeing.
The Middle East is a culture that refuses to move forward as technology progresses. They have an oppressive religious regime that wants to control every aspect of their citizen’s lives, whether they are practicing Moslems or not. America is so used to religious tolerance that the idea of telling someone that they cannot act according to their faith (unless it is immoral or illegal) is absurd. Our nation is based on the freedom to worship as we see fit or not to worship at all. It looks like the Middle East is more of “a worship as we see fit or look down the barrel of a gun, bomb, or rope.” Coercion has never been a great long term motivator.
I guess the best we can hope for is for the folks that want the savagery stopped will eventually get together and string up the leaders of the terrorists. It happened whenever the French got tired of their radical leaders during their multiple revolutions. And since the French are such sophisticates and good friends to the Islamic nations, it would only serve that they be emulated. Now let’s do some French aerobics. Everybody stand with your arms above your head, palms out. Okay ready begin. “I surrender.” I guess one repetition is all you need.
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Cobb
I realize that there is a certain amount of ideological difference between some of the Moslem sects, but it can’t be that they are trying to kill each other off. It would end up like the Godfather, with opposing sides escalating the fight until it became an obscene bloodbath. Again, since I am not a student of the culture, I could be very mistaken. I realize that there are at least three sides to the equation. You have the Kurds in the north with the huge oil fields that just want to be left alone. You have the two opposing Moslem sects, one a minority that was ruling with Saddam Hussein and the other the majority that has gained the upper hand in the recently held elections. One questions whether they will ever learn to get along considering their long history of not getting along. It comes down to which side will get enough power to eventually oppress the other. Not a pretty picture but it is the one that America and the World are actually seeing.
The Middle East is a culture that refuses to move forward as technology progresses. They have an oppressive religious regime that wants to control every aspect of their citizen’s lives, whether they are practicing Moslems or not. America is so used to religious tolerance that the idea of telling someone that they cannot act according to their faith (unless it is immoral or illegal) is absurd. Our nation is based on the freedom to worship as we see fit or not to worship at all. It looks like the Middle East is more of “a worship as we see fit or look down the barrel of a gun, bomb, or rope.” Coercion has never been a great long term motivator.
I guess the best we can hope for is for the folks that want the savagery stopped will eventually get together and string up the leaders of the terrorists. It happened whenever the French got tired of their radical leaders during their multiple revolutions. And since the French are such sophisticates and good friends to the Islamic nations, it would only serve that they be emulated. Now let’s do some French aerobics. Everybody stand with your arms above your head, palms out. Okay ready begin. “I surrender.” I guess one repetition is all you need.
Icool
Cobb
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