3.17.2005

Interesting Questions Raised

This essay in The Australian, raises some very important questions:

Why are so many Westerners, living in mature democracies, ready to march
against the toppling of a despot in Iraq but unwilling to take to the
streets in
support of the democratic movement in the Middle East?
Is it
because many of
those who will be marching in support of Saddam Hussein this
month are the
remnants of totalitarian groups in the West plus a variety of
misinformed
idealists and others blinded by anti-Americanism? Or is it
because they secretly
believe that the Arabs do not deserve anything better
than Saddam Hussein?

I wonder what these, as he calls "useful idiots", have to say?

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