September 24, 2002
Newsweek(link in MSNBC's site) has an excellent article by Mohammed Al-Jassem, who writes for the Arabic language version of Newsweek. He writes an iron-clad confirmation of what I have written, and what Steven Den Beste, Cato, Indepundit, Bill Quick, and just about every warblogger of note has stated repeatedly and en masse. It also shows just how wrong the EUroleftists and the perpetually incorrect at Warbloggerwatch have been. Al-Jassem states:
The Arabs need shock therapy, some kind of tremor that would bring them back to reality and away from their political dreamscape. Egypt?s loss in the 1967 war against Israel was the sort of shock that did away with the nationalist slogans prevalent since the July 1952 revolution carried out by Gen. Gamal Abdul Nasser. If the 1967 shock laid the ground for the spread of Islamism as an alternative to the nationalism, the ?Saddam Shock? might be what is needed to launch the era of pragmatism. The Islamist mantra has not been dropped yet, but it was tested in the Afghan war and did nothing for its supporters except spark a few demonstrations here and there, which soon died out.
This is a solid confirmation of what we've been saying all along. We shouldn't pander to the Islamofascists and Baathists, we need to defeat them utterly. We should ignore the "Arab Street". We need to show, completely and unmistakeably, that the ideologies of oppression and violence that are part and parcel of the Middle East will only bring death and destruction to their adherents. Nothing else will suffice. Posted by John Bono at September 24, 2002 10:14 PM | TrackBack
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