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Sunday, February 19, 2006To summarize the post below:"It's like the West has already won."Basra, February 19, 2006: Despite the stinging rebuke to God's will presented by the American army's presence in Iraq, tens of millions of Iraqis today failed to take up arms against the infidel army. A street vendor, speaking confidentially, said he'd love to die in a blaze of glory for Allah and spend an eternity in Paradise in the company of houris, but that at the moment his top priority was selling two more bushels of fruit so he could buy a better cell phone. Among those who failed to die for Allah today were Osama bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri. "It's a scandal," a local imam told me, "though there's no higher calling than dying in the smiting of infidels, our greatest leaders live in hiding even as this plague spreads across the Caliphate." Later in the conversation, the imam confessed that he, too, had failed to die in the glorious smiting of infidels. More cynical observers said local Muslim leaders seemed to be "all talk and no action," but lamented especially that while millions of their fellow Muslims claimed to be true believers, their actions indicated that an infidel presence in their land was just fine with them: "It's like the West has already won," said a barber, speaking off the record, "they come into our land, they eject our rulers, they take over our infrastructure and we act as though having electricity is more important than serving Allah's will." When pressed to elaborate, he said, "Look buddy, I got bills to pay, if you want a haircut have a chair and we talk." 
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