Dean’s World follows up his earlier post on Americaphobia with this:

It’s very hard for me to look at American Muslims, or Muslims in general, or anyone who considers themselves “liberal” or “progressive” or “humanist,” who claim to stand for freedom and human rights and then attack everything America has done and tried to do in Iraq over the last four years.

The fact is that the naysayers claimed we weren’t really striving for liberation. We were. They claimed we’d install a new puppet dictator. We did not. They claimed that we wouldn’t really try to set up a democracy. We did. They claimed there would be no legitimate elections. The Iraqis had three national elections in a row, all certified as legitimate by international observers, not even counting the local elections that were held before that.

They claimed we’d do everything possible to get out of the country “before the next elections”–they claimed that before the 2004 elections and again before the 2006 elections. It didn’t happen. Now these same people in many cases are cheering for a Congress that’s trying to force us out of Iraq even though the war supporters consistently say “no, that would be morally and strategically wrong.”

Time after time the naysayers have proven themselves both morally and intellectually incoherent, and yet they never have the introspection to acknowledge this.

I couldn’t agree more (make sure to read the entire post, and the moral-dilemma that American Muslims and Progressives should be faced with (if they’re honest).

We’re fighting a very real enemy of the United States over in Iraq. And we’re simultaneously helping a people and a country who desperately needed it.

Not only can we win and must win — but we are winning. A timed-pullout is the main ingredient in a plan for failure, though.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 | Trackback |