:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Friday, January 16, 2004 ::

Another excellent analysis piece from Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online

Where Americans see skill and subtlety in taking out Saddam Hussein and a costly effort to liberate a people, many Iraqis, even as they taste freedom, drive new cars, and see things improve, talk instead of humiliation, hurt pride, or anger at their own impotence ? whether whining over the morticians' make-up work on Qusay, or ashamed about Saddam's pathetic televised dental examination. Iraqis scream on camera that we should not stay another minute, but even more often whisper that we better not leave yet. Too often they seem to be mostly angry that we, not they, took out Saddam Hussein. While the tyrant's departure was a 'good' thing, it would have been even better had he killed a few thousand Americans in the process ? if only to restore the sort of braggadocio lost by the Baathist flight and antics of a mendacious Baghdad Bob.

You relly should read the whole thing. We have far too many voices in America, and the Western World in general, that cannot see, or refuse to accept, the basic cultural differences between nations. Read it; learn from it. Keep its lessons in the back of your mind the next time it is reported that the Iraqis want us out of town.

:: Mark 4:25 PM [+] ::
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