Infidels Anonymous

While playing the Friday morning quarterback with 20/20 vision which seems to be the only thing the world can do at this point after former PM of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was shot twice and then detonated at close range while thousands of supporters cheered her on to a reformist’s dream come true. As much as everyone wishes to place blame on the current administration’s involvement in middle eastern politics, it’s just not possible.
Bhutto was a dead woman walking the minute she came out of exile and began her campaign in Pakistan.
If Bush and his gang of merry men can not be blamed then who shall we blame?  Hmmm…those on the left are DYING to pin the scarlet letter on Gdub for anything and everything. When they can’t they stand back frustrated. To resolve their frustration, and the rest of the world’s let’s help them out. There must be someone or some group the world can assign blame to! After all that is what Friday morning quarter backing is all about: right right?
We MUST place blame squarely on the shoulders and point the every bony and long finger of accusation somewhere: but where?

I refer you to this article written by
Stephen F. Pizzo of the Atlantic Free Press:

“…the blame for this latest regional “Muslimocracy”-the primacy of Islamic law, or Sharia, which is still deeply rooted in the souls and minds of the people of that ever-troubled region.

Muslimocracies view the non-Muslim world as their enemy, and anyone within a Muslim nation who does not share that view, is viewed as a friend of their enemy. That is what got Bhutto killed today….you can lead them towards democracy but you can’t make them democratic. And, in the rare instances where they apparently relent, they use democracy to enshrine Sharia law, which is to democracy what a lynching is to justice. (Remember how the Palestinians embrace of democratic elections resulted in the elevation of Hamas. And, if free and open elections were held today in Egypt the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood would be swept in to power.)

As I’ve noted in more than one previous post, Pakistan is not our ally in the war on terror. Neither is Iraq. Nor is Egypt. And most certainly not Saudi Arabia. Those countries are our allies the same way a cobra is an ally of its snake charmer.

Unreconstructed Islam has been and remains Muslim country’s kryptonite against super-power strength. The Soviets learned that the hard way when they tried to occupy Afghanistan. The US is now locked in the same futile exercise of imperial hubris in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and possibly soon in Iran and Pakistan…(Some things have changed in the last 100 years in Pakistan) In particular, nuclear weapons, of which Pakistan possesses as many as 100 air and missile-mounted nukes. If one or more of those active nuclear weapons falls into the hands of al Qaida we can be assured they will used it to demonstrate just how much Allah hates non-Muslims. You don’t have to be a Neo-con to believe that.

Which begs the question-in light of the latest democracy-farce being played out in Pakistan, how should we treat the kind real threats posed by a radicalized Muslim Middle East?

In a word: containment.

We won the Cold War largely by containing the Soviet Union’s expansionist ambitions. And we won that long war without the level of bloodshed we’ve already experienced in Iraq, or the amount of bloodshed we will incur if we continue trying to force these people to drink from the democratic pond. Instead we told the nations of the Soviet bloc that, if they wanted communism, fine, it was all theirs. But, we made clear, don’t look for any financial, political or military help from us. In essence we let them stew to death in their own dysfunctional communist pots.

The Muslim Middle East is currently addicted to its own dysfunctional social/religious philosophical code, unreconstructed Islam. And that will continue to poison almost any relationships they try to form with the non-Muslim modern world. Christianity had to re-calibrate hundreds of years ago in order to survive and coexist with scientific and social progress. Islam has yet to do so and is therefore hopelessly out of step with modernity.

In the Muslim Middle East today, half-educated Mullahs have more influence over what their people know and believe than anyone inside or outside their countries. And much of what they believe is the very reason their countries are backward, violent places. For example, half their population- women-are barred from contributing to their society’s governance, commercial or even social development – a shocking waste of human capital for countries that need all the human capital they can get. But it was exactly that kind of misogynistic ignorance that played a role in Bhutto’s death today….”

Kudos to Pizzo. I couldn’t have said it any better

RWT