Posted on 05/10/2004 5:20:20 PM PDT by ambrose
Bush's Backing of Rumsfeld Shocks and Angers Arabs
Mon May 10, 4:52 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!
By Firouz Sedarat
DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab commentators reacted with shock and disbelief on Monday over President Bush (news - web sites)'s robust backing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld against calls for his resignation.
Critics had called for him to quit after the furor over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners but analysts, editors and ordinary Arabs were united in their condemnation of Bush who said the United States owed Rumsfeld a "debt of gratitude."
"After the torture and vile acts by the American army, President Bush goes out and congratulates Rumsfeld. It's just incredible. I am in total shock," said Omar Belhouchet, editor of the influential Algerian national daily El Watan.
"Bush's praise for Rumsfeld will discredit the United States...and further damage its reputation, which is already at a historic low in the Arab world," he added.
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Even the Persians who are also muslims don't seem over-fond of the Arabs.
Well stated, sir! MTX Mofo. (My Thoughts eXactly!)
For perspective, let's fly some racist, mysogenist Palistinians over here and put them in charge of Birmingham, AL for a month and watch the Black Panthers, PETA, NOW and the KKK find a least common denominator to beat the $#!t out of them all.
I understand and yet do not agree.
What is a contradiction is the liberals and other morons holding this statement to be true, yet also believing that there are any "innocent" muslims. They are all either active killers, or enablers.
The undercurrent of truth to what you are saying is that it is, indeed, moronic for the media to repeatedly and persistently jam down our throats various permutations of the sentiment "ARABS HATE YOU AND WANT YOU DEAD!!!" day after day after day, and then turn around and complain that we, their readership, seem to have a difficult time (in their eyes) distinguishing the threatening Arabs from the innocent ones.
Apparently we're supposed to treat "Arabs" as a monolithic bloc if that means maximizing how powerful and threatening they appear to us, thus goading us into capitulating to them. But NEVER if it means fighting back in any meaningful way, heaven forbid. To fight back we are required to separately and individually identify and distinguish each individual Arab and prove beyond reasonable doubt his guilt, the presumption being of course that all Arabs (the ones the media just got through saying HATE US AND WANT US DEAD) are innocent and nonthreatening as babes.
Of course, I understand why militant Arabs would welcome this double-standard - it plays right into their ambitions to inflate their fearsomeness and importance, so they can bluster us into capitulation and surrender without fear of real reprisal.
What I don't understand is why the media and the left are so eager to play along, hence my continued frustration at biased use of language such as appears in this headline.
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