From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:27:31 MDT
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >>'There's no way to know how many Iraqi soldiers and civilians have
> >>died'. I hear this now every day on ABC news after they show their
> >>chart with coalition casualties.
> >
> > "There is no way to know" is intended, semantically, to be equated
> > with "countless", and therefore "excessive", "barbarous", and "with
> > callous disrespect for humane values". That there were so few US
> > casualties and so many Iraqi casualties is now going to be played
> > by the anti-US media as somehow unfair, dishonorable, and
> > downright evil.
>
> The curious thing about the Middle Eastern mindset it that
> it seems to accept barbarous and brutal. What they really
> seemed to be choking on is the poor showing the Iraqi
> military made. This shames them far more than their concern
> over losing a few thousand lives.
This is true, but this propaganda is intended for a western audience
(as well as westernized arabs/muslims) to propagate the meme that the
US invasion is morally equivalent to Saddam's gassing of 5,000 Kurds.
If our invasion is morally equivalent, there is no validity to US
altruistic motives, and France, Germany, and Russia are justified in
their crass obstructionism.
As for the poor showing of their military, I wonder what they think of
not only the complete surrender of the Iraqi 5th Corps in Mosul without
a shot fired, but the apparent complete evacuation of Baath leadership
from Tikrit, allegedly gone to Syria.
Another is wondering what the arab world thinks of the enthusiastic
cooperation of Iraqi policemen with the US in ending the looting and
zeroing in on Baathists trying to fade into the woodwork.
Reminds me of those anti-smoking commercials that state some really
nasty fact about cigarettes that most people don't know and then
watching the mental lights come on in the depicted crowd. I see many
lightbulbs lighting up across the arab/muslim world, to the dismay of
many others in and out of the muslim world...
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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