Good morning Chris!
Dr Chris R. Tame forwarded, in part, to everyone...
At the same time, the Moslems, who are most cohesive and
electorally important group among the ethnic minorities, have
been alienated by a war of military aggression against Iraq. Why
this war was launched my Moslem friends cannot agree. Was it the
security needs of Israel? Or was it the greed of the big oil
companies? Or was it some hubristic stab at empire by the
American ruling class? There is no agreement on reasons. But one
consequence of the war has been a disengagement of the Islamic
interest from Labour.
Sadly, here in America, such a realisation as to why exactly we have embarked upon aggression against Iraq hasn't reached the same tempo perhaps as has been indicated above in the UK.
It seems, on both sides of the Isle, between the US GOP and Democratic Parties, there is no consensus insofar as how this war can be justified in any respect, and the Bush regime seems to placate this uncertainty by a rather universal appeal to forcing Democratic government and western social components upon Islamic societies that refuse to go along.
Nothing however in the Bush regime's rhetoric suggests anything at all as to how the US and to so-called 'Allies of the Willing' were given any moral authority to wage such wars resulting in regime changes in an effort to build Democracy around the planet. Nor is the contradiction addressed insofar as how we can justify using force to force other civilisations and people to accept a notion of liberty and Democracy against what presumably is against their own wills to accept on their own without the use of tremendous outside force and aggression.
So, the questions raised above in the article you posted aren't really being asked here in the US in any concerted way by great numbers of people. Who knows? But the above questions ought to be a part of the US national debate, and for the moment it certainly has not been.
Kindest regards, Frank
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