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Good Deeds
By Mark Neckameyer
December 16, 2006
Saturday
Sometimes the Good Deeds You Perform Come Back to Kick You in
the Teeth!
It seems to work that way for
nations too. The United States loves to liberate other countries
that are enslaved; peoples being mistreated and terrorized.
We liberated Europe from the Nazis and it worked out well,
We saved Eastern Europe from the Soviets and so far it seems
to be a success. We freed the Philippines twice; from the Spanish
a hundred years ago and then again from the Japanese Imperialists
in WW2 and that worked out but we also rescued Cuba from the
Spanish and look what happened there, a proverbial kick in the
teeth for us in Cuba!
Then there is Iraq. We freed Iraqi citizens from Sadaam and
his Baath Party's bloody dictatorship. The Kurds in Northern
Iraq are free and safe and the downtrodden, formerly suppressed
and tortured Shiites have been liberated too. President Bush
was correct when he said the job had been completed four years
ago when he landed on that aircraft carrier, the basic job had
been completed anyway. Unfortunately there is something in the
Arabic culture that defines freedom as a license to kill, kidnap
and torture ones neighbors if their opinions about life, religion
or politics differ. They apparently feel it is OK to murder
children to bring attention to a cause and to generally to be
as violent and behave in as bloody a manner as possible. You
even get to Paradise acting that way on occasion, right?
Where is the proof that this is correct, that the Arab culture
is violently to blame? Look at the Palestinian Territories, populated
by pretty much same Muslim Arabs as in Iraq. There are two political
parties; Hamaas and Fatah. They have the usual political differences
not so unlike what we have here between Democrats and Republicans
but in Palestine there are daily political murders, children
killed intentionally in driveby shootings, beheadings, yesterday
a judge murdered "execution style", etc. Need more
evidence? Does the name "Darfur" and the murders,
rapes and savagery there sound familiar; Arabs versus primitive
non-Arabs in that instance? This is first class ethnic genocide
in action being perpetrated against Africans by the Arab population
of the area.
We freed those Iraqi people all right at the cost of Billions
of tax dollars that could have been used to make the lives of
needy people here in the USA more comfortable. We could have
used the money to re-build the Gulf Coast or to fund a NASA Mars
program of to develop fuel cells for cars to rid ourselves of
dependence on the whacko Middle East for energy. OK America,
we are good people and we usually succeed but not this time and
it is not our fault (Or Bush's or the Republicans or anybody
here in government!) Iraq is the odd good deed that kicks us
in the teeth. This is a problem for the Muslim world to figure
out and handle. What is wrong with these people?!
Mark Neckameyer
Irvine, California
Received December 16, 2006 - Published December 16, 2006
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