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"We Liberated Islam"

The title is quoted from frequent Front Page Magazine contributor Lawrence Auster's recent blog entry:

Have any of the war supporters who keep telling us that if we withdraw from Iraq there will be a blood bath ever once acknowledged that two million people including a half-million Christians have already fled Iraq out of fear for their lives, and that another two million people have become internal refugees inside Iraq for the same reason? No. Instead, the neoconservatives sweep away every specific horror resulting from their and Bush's mistakes with the slogan that "There are always mistakes in wars," which is the moral equivalent of saying, "Don't blame me. I just work here. No one's perfect!" Nothing better demonstrates their unfitness for any position of influence in our polity. This is all the more the case when the mistakes they wave off have resulted in the uprooting of millions of people, including the Christians who lived in relative safety under Saddam Hussein.

Furthermore, it wasn't just generic mistakes that were made here. It wasn't just a tactical detail or a strategic direction that was wrong here. It was the very premise underlying the whole operation that was wrong here: the belief that Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people like ourselves, who, when liberated from tyranny, will behave in a peaceful and tolerant way. That's not the way it's worked out, is it? There is no future in Iraq for the Christian community that has existed there for almost 2,000 years, and this is because, in the act of liberating Muslims from tyranny, we liberated their violence and intolerance as well. Meaning, we liberated Islam.

When a neocon is willing to admit these realities, and not just say that tactical or strategic mistakes were made, then he will be worth listening to.

 This is the sad fact that the Bush administration still can't bring itself to face, yet it keeps repeating the mantra of, "Democracy is the solution to radical extremism" in the hopes that it will become true, along with other intellectually dishonest neocon war slogans:

  • "If we don't fight them there, we'll have to fight them here."
  • "Iraq's problems are overstated, since things are going well in most of Iraq."
  • "Iraq's problems are overstated, since mistakes are made in all wars."
  • "Iraq's problems are overstated, because we forget the terrible losses we took in the Pacific in World War II."
  • "Iraq's problems are overstated, since it took a long time for America to achieve democracy."
  • "Iraq's problems are overstated, because people keep forgetting our great three-week victory in 2003."

 I guarantee you that, because of our immigration policy, we'll be fighting them here too.  For example, jihadists are training in rural America as you read this, and are engaging in other forms of low-intensity warfare throughout the country.  We hear of disrupted terrorist cells and plots almost every single day, though less often than in Britain. 

Despite the inability of Muslim Iraqis to establish a peaceful, orderly society, Western leaders have thought it wise to import many of them (not the Christians, of course)  into the West.  Sweden has taken in twice as many Iraqis as the US, and look at the results (via Gates of Vienna):

I’ve mentioned Södertälje to you previously. It has become a ghastly place, as the town — on its own — has taken in more than twice as many Iraqis as the entire U.S.A.

I’ve decided to translate a few articles from the town’s local paper Länstidningen, which almost every day has astonishing new reports on the cultural enrichment of Södertälje.

From LT on September 21st:

Youth gang blocks ambulance in emergency

An ambulance in a hurry was about to evacuate a woman who had become ill at a grocery in Hovsjö town center. But it didn’t get there - some 30 youths blocked it. When hospital staff told them to move aside, the youths replied “Why? We live in a free country!”


It was around three o’clock Thursday afternoon when the ambulance was summoned to an ill woman at the grocery. But it turned out to be a job more difficult than anyone would have assumed.

The ambulance had trouble getting through. Some thirty guys blocked it and refused to move. Also the police were called.

The staff begged for them to move. At last, they did, but when the police arrived, they were already gone.

 "Why? We live in a free country?"  Get it?  Islam was liberated in Sweden and is just acting out its cultural presuppositions: low-intensity warfare against women and the police, persecution of everyone not Islamic, and increasing poverty.  Without infidels, the Muslims would quickly starve in Sweden, but the Swedish will only respond with more concessions in an attempt to appease Muslims.  The Bush administration has decided to allow several thousand Iraqis to come here not to mention the ones who've already snuck in through Mexico.  The situation will play out largely the same here, as geniune Americans make up fewer and fewer of the local populations of the areas where Muslims settle, as in Dearborn, MI.

Though America has a powerful military in a Clauswitzian sense, Muslims and other terrorists (such as Latino gangsters), see know reason to play by the rules of warfare found in a Clauswitzian universe.  They prefer to act asymmetrically, attacking weak points in our infrastructure and population.  As we allow more people into our population with such cultural presuppositions, we can expect more low-intensity conflict.  The City Journal develops this idea a bit further.   Yes, there are means of counteracting the terrorism threats we face, but why let such people into the country in the first place?  It's insane.  If you liberate people with a rotten belief system and don't teach them otherwise, you can expect a rotten society.

 

Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 01:10PM by Registered CommenterPRCalDude | Comments1 Comment

Reader Comments (1)

Bush liberated (as in legitimized) Isalm when he claimed, and continues to wrongly claim, that Islam is a religion of peace.

September 25, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterLawrence

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