This is going to be hard to say, and even harder to take for many of you reading this, but it needs to be said. If you are advocating retreat in Iraq you are either a coward or a racist.
There I’ve said it.
Yes I called you a racist, why? Read on.
I’ve listen to many people and their arguments for leaving Iraq: it’s too dangerous, it’s not our fight and “they” just don’t understand democracy are some of the biggest reasons people give for wanting to leave Iraq. The other biggie: we are creating more terrorists by being there. Of course all of those reasons are valid in the minds of those advocating a sudden and deadly retreat from Iraq and yet I can give examples and anecdotal information that can counter almost everyone of them but one. “They just don’t understand democracy because of their culture.”
You’ve heard that before, or some variation of it I’m sure. I know you have, because I hear it all the time. I heard it again on Saturday while at the community pool having a conversation with the local journalist that I’ve countered before on this blog. My impression of his biggest reason for wanting to leave Iraq, their culture just doesn’t understand democracy, and the New York Times agrees. What’s that? A local journalist and the New York Times espousing the same viewpoints, isn’t that a coincidence, no media bias here though.
Oh sure they complain about the high loss of American lives, and the devilish deaths wrought upon the civilian population by an enemy that only seeks to achieve martyrdom and sensational images. But what they are really saying is that American lives are too good to be “wasted” on someone with a different culture or skin color or religion. Civilian deaths help support their cause but it’s the loss of American lives, our men and women in defense of another people that they can’t stand, why? Because they have a different culture than ours, they look and act differently and they cannot possibly understand democracy like we do.
As Col Sherman Potter of MASH fame was won’t to say: “Bull Hockey!”
The members of the cultural left are racists; they are the same people that lynched blacks in southern America for 100 years after the Civil War freed them. They are the same people that abandoned the Vietnamese to a generation of genocide, they are the same people that abandoned the Chinese in Tiananmen Square, and they are the same people that abandoned the Kurds in Northern Iraq to the genocide of Saddam, and now they will abandon the people of Iraq once again because they have a different culture than us.
They will have us abandon another group of people all because of what they look like, how they dress and how they “think” because how they dress, look and think is not like us. They are the consummate racists and they are proud of it.
When the New York Times advocates an immediate withdrawal, and members of Congress seek to limit the President’s ability to conduct the war in a manner that can result in victory, and victory is not yet lost. Then they are damning the millions of Iraqis who seek to be known as Iraqis, not just Shias or Sunnis, but Iraqis, of the possibility of democracy all on racial terms. They claim that the tribal culture of Iraq and most of the Middle East can not understand the concept of democracy and are unable to stand up and defend themselves all because the elected government of Iraq is still floundering and yet thy ignore the fact that out own fledgling government of the 1770’s floundered and stumbled for 11 years before they were officially recognized and functioning.
In essence they are damning the future Martin Luther King’s of Iraq, who may at this time be a young man or woman all of 12 or 13, to a world of darkness and chaos or possibly even death all because, “their culture doesn’t understand democracy.” I would argue that the cultural left is the culture that does not understand democracy, because they base democracy purely upon racial overtones and quotas.
If you are advocating a complete withdrawal of Iraq, are you really willing to allow the future of Iraq be systematically slaughtered and the country thrown into a new dark age, just so you can feel better about yourself? Or can you truly embrace the concept of American Liberty and extend it to someone different than yourself?
If you can’t do that then you can be sure, you are a racist and there is no place for you in America.
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Linked/Trackbacked by:
The Dawn Patrol - Mudville Gazette
The Cowards of the Senate - Bear Creek Ledger
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