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One small voice in the proud tradition of FreeBlogging* Wednesday, October 20, 2004 posted by gbarto at 1:20 AM:CARE Suspends WorkAgency says it will put Iraq operations on hold because of director's abduction Another stunning blow by the Religion of Peace's fiercest advocates to protect the Iraqi people from... assistance? Let's face it. There may be Baathists who sincerely believe the old government was better. There may be ordinary Iraqis who are ready for us to be the hell out of there. But the people pulling these stunts are not thinking of Iraq or the people of Iraq, nor, for that matter, of what their religion may or may not call upon them to do. To the contrary, their primary aim is to see the Iraqi people sufficiently miserable that maybe even their 14th century mindset will come to seem progressive. But just remember - the Islamists have yet to create a functional society, yet to figure out how to actually educate young girls, yet to even figure out how to make their own weapons. They believe themselves warriors for Allah, but if Allah gave a crap He would have given them brains, not the porridge that passes for their gray matter. He would have granted Taliban-controlled Afghanistan the means to get a single plane off the ground without an American or United attendant having to first confirm that everyone's seat was in the upright and locked position, would have given that nation the means to attract the best and the brightest, not the dimmest and the darkest. It is true that in Iraq and in the War on Terror we find ourselves sometimes fumbling about. There are real problems whose solutions aren't always apparent. But we will win this thing and in part because the God of Abraham, if He is taking an interest in this, is not on the Islamists' side. He has given the decadent West so many tools. To the Islamists He has bequeathed... the kamikaze. Kamikazes and suicide bombers alike can seem frightening for their determination to kill and their willingness to die if that's what it takes to do so. But in spite of the chatter about the Islamists winning because they do not fear death, well, we know how the last such conflict turned out. The war has developed, noted Hirohito, not necessarily to Japan's advantage - or words to that effect. The War on Terror, too, will develop "not necessarily to the Islamists' advantage." To the contrary, not only will their own specific cause know setbacks, but the religion of Islam will in time face the same challenge that the Catholic church faced after the Inquisition went from awful to absurd: proving that it is a viable religion for reasonable people in spite of the actions of its fiercest partisans. Two hundred years from now, the division in Islam won't be between Shiite and Sunni but between those who address September 11, 2001 with a "yes, but..." and those who unconditionally repudiate it and mock as backward those who don't. Mohammed Atta may have known how to fly a plane, but he was otherwise an idiot, unless his plan was really to unleash forces that would one day see Muslim women wearing pants and driving cars. 
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