Since 1947 there have been problems in the Middle East centered around the state of Israel. It started on the very day that the United Nations partitioned the area into Palestine and Israel. Jews had settled the area for centuries. What was new was the actual declaration of a state. The surrounding Arab nations did not accept the U.N. partition, which was backed by the United States, declaring war on Israel in an attempt at annihilation, trying to drive the Israelis into the sea.
The area partitioned for Israel was a sliver of land. The Arab countries occupy thousands of times more landmass than Israel. Yet to them, the sliver of land that Israel occupied became the most important real estate. It was not an area rich in natural resources. Rather, it had symbolic value. Three of the world’s major religions claim it as their locus of origin. Jesus, Jewish ancestors and their great Temple, and Muhammad all were connected to Jerusalem. Historically, many wars were fought over this land, including the Crusades.
The Palestinian problem occurred because when the Arab states tried to annihilate Israel and throw the Israelis to the sea, they lost. The Israelis won each war. Whenever you lose an aggressive war, there is the danger that you will forfeit territory. This is a principle recognized in international law. Israel won territory and expanded its mandated sliver to a slightly larger sliver. In short, the Palestinians lost part of their land to the Israelis, who won the land legitimately defending their own survival.
Now comes the complicating factor, oil. God decided to make things interesting. The land the Arabs controlled had a resource, which would become number one in the industrial age, the black gold, oil. The Arabs, who at one time had a magnificent civilization, now devoted themselves to only two things, reaping the benefits of their black gold, and destroying Israel. The United States, instead of going after the black gold, decided to be honorable, and defend the only working democracy in the Middle East, Israel, against the nations that wanted to destroy it.
Enter the Allah factor. The Arabs, feeling miserable because they continued to fail in regaining their preeminence in the world by any kind of advanced civilization, and failing to destroy Israel, turned to Allah. They went back to their religious roots, and put their fate in the hands of Allah, emphasizing those elements of the Quran that advocate killing infidels and regaining Jerusalem.
This, then, has become the status quo. The Arab states are miserable excuses for nations. Most are failed dictatorships, running on oil, producing nothing for the world except hatred. They feel awful. They feel humiliated. They want their land back. They want their preeminence back. They have tried conventional war and it didn’t work. Now, they have committed themselves to jihad and terrorism, and the complete submission to Allah, including martyrdom.
The best thing for the Arab states would be to turn away from hatred, take their massive riches, given by Allah, and invest them in positive contributions to the world. They could build a great Arab civilization again, becoming leaders in science and math, finding cures for cancer and AIDS. Instead, they remain mired in hatred, focused on revenge, dedicating their lives to evil.
The Arab states are the best example of why you can’t just throw money at a problem. They’ve got the money. They keep their own brothers in poverty, despite this largess. They could solve the Palestinian problem in ten years if they devoted themselves to it. Instead, they inflame their subjects to hatred, and continue to fight for a sliver of land. This is the status quo.
Iraq is just another example of this status quo. A tin pot dictator controlled his people through terror, and was paying the families of suicide bombers in Israel $25,000 each. Dedicated to the destruction of Israel and anti-West, Saddam Hussein was using his oil money not to rebuild a great Arab civilization, but to foment hatred in the world.
Enter George Bush. Suddenly, there is change in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein is gone! The oil is still there. Allah is still there. Are the Arab people up to the challenge? What does Allah want for the region? Back to the status quo?
The Iraq war was necessary, and Iraq is worth fighting for, because a democracy in the region could shake up the status quo. It would give some of the Arabs in the region the chance to focus on building a great civilization again. The Arabs have proven that they are capable of such a thing. They cannot do it, however, unless there is change. This is their opportunity. They must take it. They must fight and overcome the preachers of hatred in their midst. If they do this, and America has given them this chance, they can take their oil money and become a force for good in the world again.
This is a dream worth dying for. This is a noble goal. This is what every American soldier has given his life for. This is George Bush’s vision, and why he is a great president. Most American people now are not smart enough to see it. Almost no Europeans have the brains to see it. (Thank God for the liberal Christopher Hitchens!)
If the forces of good win in Iraq we will have a different world. The whole Middle East will change. Al-Queda will recede in dominance. Palestine will settle down to make peace, and one day build their own successful country. Israel will no longer have to defend herself. Other Arab states will go democratic. Oil money will begin to be invested in positive endeavors. The Arabs will rise again to become good neighbors and a great civilization. Islam can then have its needed Reformation, and become a religion of peace. America can rebuild its towers, without fear, for a time, of anyone knocking them down again, amidst the blood and tears of innocents.
It’s not just a dream, folks. George Bush has made this whole scenario a real possibility. Get behind him. Bless him. Pray for him. Pray that he succeeds. It will make the world a safer place for your children.
For you good Muslims in the world, consider the possibility that Allah loves George Bush.
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3 comments:
Well said Rock.
Anyone under the age of 20yrs. might review the history of the middle east, what they've seen or been told, and without investigating themselves,they could easily be influenced by the liars and revisionists who hate Israel and disregard the real history of it's creation.
This was a wasteland which was purchased from the Turkish Empire centuries ago. Nobody wanted it. Nobody came there until the Jews, who legally owned it, had made it fertile and beautifull. The Arabs who came there came to work and live. They had no problems with the Jews giving them jobs and allowing them to live there. And when "Palestine" was no longer a British Colony after WWII, it was the warmongering Arab nations that created the completely bogus "Palestinian Refugee". Those governments who lost the wars they started could have allowed those former workers to immigrate back into their former Arab homelands, but they chose not to, because those people displaced by the war(s) those Arab Nations started were, and have always been more valuable as political pawns. Their misery has become usefull propoganda for the world of Jihadists, Liberals and ignorant anti-semites.
This is where I feel the Arab people and their nations need to improve. They need to respect humanity and stop using human beings as pawns,suicide bombers, and bomb shields. They need to come back into the human race and begin respecting all human life again.They need to accept the truth and stop the habitual lying. They need to wake-up and understand that they are wrong and they've been infuenced by hate that is misplaced, which should be directed at their rulers who've made the decisions creating their misery. They need to understand that a life of love and peace, through compromise, and lived here on this earth is worth working for. Rewards in paradise for killing innocent civilians is a barbaric lie that could never ever be a holy act.
Until then, they will be no different than an alien species,inhabiting a portion of the planet,incapable of interacting with the rest of civilization without violence.As an enemy to mankind, they will be doomed to destuction, either by themselves or the rest of the world. A world which will someday have had enough death,hatred and murder, and will then endeavor for it's own survival to exterminate........ them.
Great to hear from you Arcticman! I'll comment on your comment later today. Have a great day, and weekend.
Maybe I should have added "middle east needs a shake up" to my list of Iraq war rationales, a list that seems to change as often as the situation on the ground. I would agree that the Middle East needs a bit of a shake up, that the "Palestinian cause" is exploitive, and that there is a REAL hatred towards Israel- but why war and why Iraq? Why not Yemen or Saudi Arabia or Syria? Saddam may have been a tyrant, but so are the Chinese and Iranian regimes- the REAL threats to the US. This war isn't about changing the face of the Middle East OR bringing a fragile, bullshit-type of democracy to the region (until the next tyrant comes along), it's about two things, REVENGE and MONEY, at least it was until the insurgency began making things a little more difficult. "Someone" needed to pay for 9-11 and most Americans didn't care who paid as long as someone with an Arab name got a fat bomb in their lap. In fact, right after 9-11, 80% of America believed that Saddam had a hand in the attack (which he didn't). Where did that idea come from? bin Laden was nowhere to be found so who better to attack than Saddam? Iraq had a weak army, Saddam was isolated with a minimal amount of real support, a vast oil field and a familiar name. That humanitarian effort excuse doesn't fly with me. If your dear bushie was such a benevolent earthshaker, he would have bombed Tehran, Pyongyang and Tiajuana months ago. Hell, the entire African continent needs a shake up! No interest there- I wonder why?
Just today in his speech, he said he wants to find "diplomatic" solutions to this Iran crisis, but added that major consequences would be in order should they not cooperate (read: another hollow threat). The days of the US telling the world how to conduct their national affairs is over and everyone else knows it except us! War in Iraq was not necessary three years ago and as it slides toward civil war more and more daily, it's proven to be unneccesary today. Call me "liberal" all you want Rocky, but the more I hear of dead 18 and 19 year old kids in army uniforms coming home in boxes, the more pissed I get- and the more I'm convinced that the US chose the wrong battle this time (again). Why is that happening? To prove a point that if other countries in the middle east don't do things our way, expect the "Saddam treatment"? How arrogant is that?
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