Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Barbarians All

After Little Imitations, it seems at best incongruous for me to post the following recommended reading, but Dennis Prager has his ducks in a row on why we have not yet won in Iraq. In a word, barbarism. To quote the column,
No one, right, left or center, could imagine a group of people so evil, so devoid of the most elementary and universal concepts of morality, that they would target their own people, especially the most vulnerable [children], for murder.
This is assuming that the people responsible are actually Iraqis and not Iranians or Syrians. It's much more plausible to this western mind to believe that Iran and Syria are sending their own trained "insurgents" who have no compunction about dispatching Iraqi civilians, even little children. Why would they have any problem with it when
Ahmadinejad appears in public in his Basiji uniform. During the war [with Iraq], he served as one of the Basiji instructors who turned children into martyrs.

He would like to bring about a renaissance of the Basiji culture of the 1980s – in order, among other things, to combat the burgeoning Western-oriented youth movement (1)
He clearly believes that using children is an acceptable military tactic in his Muslim mind. Were we westerners to do the same thing, we would be condemned around the world, and rightly so. The world cannot tolerate such barbarity, yet it has for over 20 years now. How much longer?


1. Ahmadinejad's World, Trans-Atlantic Intelligencer: Are 500,000 Keys to Paradise Enough?: Germany "Confronts" Ahmadinejad by Matthias Küntzel

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