IP: Washington's racism and the Islamist trap -- not pleasant reading but ..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Washington's racism and the Islamist trap

By Spengler

"The Arab is a patriot, not a whore," the hardline Zionist leader Vladimir 
Jabotinsky used to warn his leftwing colleagues back during the 1920s. "He 
can't be bought off by the promise of economic benefits. And he is just as 
intelligent as you are."

Implicit in America's pompous elocution against terrorism is a Kiplingesque 
premise that it is carrying the White Man's Burden to the underprivileged 
Middle East and South Asia. Except for a few "fundamentalist" 
recalcitrants, Washington believes, everyone in those parts of the world 
wants what the US wants: suburban tract housing developments, video on 
demand, fast food, egalitarianism and economic opportunity. It has put the 
Taliban on its "Wanted: Dead or Alive" poster, because the Taliban are an 
irrelevant medieval relic that fits a racist profile. Indeed, President 
Bush's silly ultimatim to the Taliban in his speech before Congress of 
September 20 might enter the textbooks as the classic case history in 
cultural stupidity. America's unwarranted contempt for its Islamist 
adversary already has had terrible consequences, and well might have 
catastrophic ones.

http://www.atimes.com/front/CI22Aa02.html



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