Posted on 05/07/2004 6:31:42 PM PDT by LS
Amidst all the apologies, I want to suggest we all (Hillary Clinton here) take a deep breath and consider something that no one in the administration or Congress has (publicly) considered:
The POW photos are having an unintended effect on the Arab "Street" and the "resistance."
By now, everyone pretty well knows that Arab societies base everything on power and perceptions of power. In part, that is why so many Freepers and conservatives got their panties in a bunch because it appeared in public like "apologizing" was a sign of weakness.
Ah, my friends. You aren't thinking like an Arab. The "street" and, indeed, the leadership doesn't trust much of what we say---they only look at what we do. It would have made no difference if Bush formally apologized and sent each detainee a bouquet of flowers---the "street" would see that as a sham, a pretense, a distraction from the "real" policy.
No, I suggest something else. That the Arab "street" and especially the "resistance" has taken from those photos a message we didn't intend to send, but one that strikes fear into the very heart of them---a message of pure power and dominance. The submissive positions of these "tough" Iraqi men under the heels and attached to the leashes of WOMEN (and relatively small women, at that) sends a very powerful message to the "street."
Don't screw with the Americans. Oh, they'll "apologize," be we know that when the hearings are over, and the attention is off, they can do what they want.
I want to reiterate: this is foreign to our way of thinking. Unless you're a hard-core Democrat, you don't pathologically lie to achieve your objectives. But we must start thinking like the enemy.
Has anyone noticed that we virtually walked into Najaf this week, unopposed? Al-Sadr did nothing. Has anyone noticed that Fallujah is quiet? Very few roadside bombs/suicide bombs in the last couple of days. This could all change, but it is eerie that when a message of power is sent out all over the Middle East---unintentionally on our part---it resonates. Big time.
Damn straight. Can you imagine us apologizing and offering cash reparations to jailed lower-level Nazi crimminals during WW2 for "humiliating" them? The American people would've been horrified by such a suggestion. .....but back then we were made of much sterner stuff.
The only that would have made those pictures even worse,to the "Arab Street",would have been if these pictures also showed women rubbing bacon all over those "brave" soldiers for Allah.
Imagine what some of those Arab women who get beaten if they let their burkas slip and reveal a little bit of their face are feeling when they see a tiny American woman leading one of their abusers around on a leash. Psychologicaly this has to be jolting.
(Just joking - but we should have a policy of burying suicide bombers in latrines covered in pig guts - that might send a message.)
Next item on the agenda: Hand over Bin Laden al Zawhari and Mullah Omer's heads.
Next item: Re-elect Dubya and keep Rumsie and Rice right where they are.
Yeah....the previous inmates, under Saddam, are dead.
If that's the case, then we must decry the Left's attack upon fetishism as an attack against the very font of multiculturalism. You'd figure someone as liberal as Kerry would be the first one to stand up and speak out on behalf of Leather Lovers, Pain Mistresses, and every Sub/Dom in the military.
lol. Personally I think there's a few bad apples in every barrel. Prosecute them and move on.
For added affect I suggest that someone send a anonymous package to CAIR with the following item. Of that item I am not meaning a bomb or anything lethal, just fun. At last I heard that the office of CAIR was in DC. It would be a device that would sound like an old fashion air-raid Klaxon, set off by any US Military Aircraft. Then I would order 24 hour random fly-overs. CAIR is a Islamist terrorist group that was founded by terrorists, have supported terrorists and should be spit on by every TRUE American reporter they whine to.
SledgeCS
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