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Dangerous neocon ideology keeps spreading
Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn, in a televised debate today with his Democratic rival, said this about Iraq (this is a close paraphrase): “I’ve met many Iraqis. They are just like us. They love their families and want better things for their children. We must give them democracy.”
So, hardline social-conservative Republicans from the heartland are now mouthing the same brainless, utopian formula as Norman “The Neocon Pope” Podhoretz and his favorite acolyte, George W. Boilerplate. It’s funny. President Boilerplate says that spreading democracy throughout the Moslem world is the center of his war on terror. But outside Afghanistan, and very doubtfully Iraq, there is no spread of democracy going on. What’s going on is the spread of democratism. And this spread of democratism is not happening in Moslem countries, but in America. Furthermore, since we already have democracy in America, what practical form does this democratist ideology take in America? It takes the form of a policy of open borders toward the rest of humanity, including, of course, all those non-democratized Moslems. Comments
When OBL states that he is fighting a defensive jihad, he has a point. Bush bringing democracy to Islam is another way of saying that we are going to secularize Islam. Posted by: Adam Wayne on October 31, 2004 11:50 PMMr. Wayne: How on earth could you characterize actions such as flying airliners full of defenseless civilians into buildings full of defenssless civilians as “defensive”? Such actions are nothing short of acts of war - of the worst kind. That being said, I think that Bush and the neocons’ vision of Iraq as some sort of Mesopotamian Sweden is both utterly absurd and profoundly offensive. A tradtional, tribal, islamic society is now expected to automatically embrace feminism, gay liberation, and a host of addtional great benefits we enjoy that they are supposedly jealous of? If there is a legitimate, honest election, the Kurds would vote to secede, the Shia and Sunni would vote to establish Islamic states with Sharia as law. However, there is one minority group that’s been present in the region for nearly two millenia, who is never mentioned in all of this gushing over democracy and freedom. The Christians: namely Assyrians, Maronites, and Nestorians. They are fleeing the place where they have survived for so long as fast as they can. Sort of odd when the president running things is so vocal about his own faith. Posted by: Carl on November 1, 2004 1:46 AMThe first post-war election in Germany was in August 1949. http://faculty.washington.edu/~krumme/german/chronology.html In other words, more than 4 years after German surrender (May 1945). Now Bush and the neocons expect to have an election in Iraq in January 2005, less than 2 years after the war started, which war has not yet ended, in a country with no history of democratic elections, and a history of tyrannical dictatorship far longer than what endured in Germany. Posted by: Scott in PA on November 1, 2004 4:45 PM |