“Young men with no jobs and with limited access to women (many of whom are in the harem of the princes and their retinue); that’s why terrorism flourishes in Saudi Arabia, etc. Heck, I’d become a terrorist, too, under those conditions.”
This quote oozes of American ignorance about other cultures in the worrld. I am just hoping that Washington is not basing tactics to engage terrorism based on the theory that “limited access to women” causes people to become terrorists.
For all now proclaiming that we went there to spread democracy are hiding behind an excuse. Americans went to Iraq believing it had weapons of mass destruction and moreover, beleiving that those weapons would go into hands of terrorists. Iraq could have been democratized anytime from early 90s, but without the WMD, this thing could never have taken off. People say that well in hindsight this war was a mistake. No way, the whole world told us that this was a mistake from the beginning but the American bravado wouldn’t listen to the european pansies. This govt pushed for this war so badly, with so little concrete evidence that one seriously doubts the motives of this govt for the invasion of Iraq. What are the intelligence reports now about Iran and North Korea? What about Pakistan who supplied atomic technology to NK? Why did we ignore much more dangerous terrorist havens and ended up invading a poor, weak, hollow disctatorship and turned the country into terrorist haven?
Another arrogant American concept is that Americans went to Iraq to “liberate” Iraqi people. A recent poll by NBC found that 87% Americans think their govt system is broken. Should another country invade the US with true intentions of fixing its broken democracy and with noble intentions of liberating its people from the corrupt politicians or corporates? The reason why we attacked Iraq ………. well because we could and because we knew that it will be the people of Iraq who will be paying major collateral for any mistakes or error of judgements, that we made. Well the war has caused Americans billions of dollars in debt as a gift to pass onto future generations, ~3000 soldiers and a budding ground for terrorism.
