Yes the Guardian is left wing; it does have a romantic view of the Arab world and has an underlying anti-Semitism. I however have the opposite views in those respects. Nevertheless, having read more posts than I care to count I feel there is a need for a little bitch slapping of the hysterical nonsense that has been posted.
Most but not all of what the Guardian says is perfectly correct. All the wars you have been waging are against those not able to defend themselves, for it has become quite plain that any country that can kill half a dozen American will have nothing to fear from Uncle Sam.
Many Iraqi wife has received a telephone call from the authorities notifying her that her husband who left for work this morning will not becoming home because he has become collateral damage to American bombs and missiles that have destroyed his place of work. Is Iraq at war with America, did the UN sanction these over flights by the Americans and their British lackeys? It has been decided by your country to violate the air space of another and randomly visit death and destruction upon the inhabitants because you are frustrated that you have been unable to starve them. I won’t elaborate upon shooting down Iranian civilian aircraft killing everyone on board. And I will only mention in passing the complicity, no let us say the driving force behind shooting down civilian aircraft in Peru and other parts of Latin America. These things were not done by Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Idi Amin or the whole Parthenon of bogey men you have brought up abhor. No Veronica, Americans did these horrendous acts.
Yesterday your Command and Control centers were attacked, fortunately the White House escaped due to events beyond the control of the your enemy. There was collateral damage – ask CNN there is always collateral damage. It is hard for you to accept that perhaps the death of 10,000 Americans could be described so callously. It was also hard for the Serbs, Iraqis, Iranians, and Sudanese etc. to hear that their fellow countrymen and loved ones were dismissed as collateral damage after a military operation.
So stand up straight, stop you wailing about being victims, start thinking and stare reality in the face. What happened a couple of days ago have more far reaching implications than any of you realize at this moment – you have suffered a great defeat, accept that fact. Your enemy gained a stature that they have not had since Suliman the Magnificent. The Islamic world is rejoicing. If the response were to bomb Afghanistan that would be a joke – two minutes after you had bombed it, no one would notice the difference unless they had a photograph of the rubble, before and after. In fact the whole of Islam would love such a ludicrous and ineffectual response, as another example of the evilness of the great Satan. I don’t know what, make my day, in Arabic is I can’t believe that sentiment or something similar is not in every Arab’s mind.
What would really worry them is that Americans would really start to think. Then they could have big problems, If I were their minister of disinformation the White House would be flooded with Faxes and E-mails demanding the carpet bombing of Afghanistan, with a couple of nukes thrown it. To really infuriate a dozen other countries – that’s not going to happen but there no harm in trying.
This is enough for now to put half this thread in orbit…