Jedi Knight
14th March 2003, 08:57 AM
A classified report (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/03/14/MN22108.DTL) was issued by the US State Department regarding Iraq. Even though I have not read the report, it is clear that those who are leaking segments of it to the leftist media are doing so to attack President Bush's intent on spreading democracy in the Middle East.
The report was "classified", I believe, so that it could "air" a level of credibility that it does not possess. If it is such a striking and damning report, make it open-source and let some intellectuals take a look at it.
The logic used in the report, based upon the comments by "officials" who leaked parts of it, is directly attacking turning Iraq into a democracy. Peering into some of those quotes, it becomes clear how they are filled with status-quo old-thinking leftism. For example, the report says:
1) Freeing Iraqi citizens will not allow democracy to take root because of the socio-economic damage to Iraq.
2) That Islamic extremists would use the democratic process to subvert an emerging democracy in Iraq.
3) That the "domino theory" for spreading democracy in the middle east is doomed to failure.
Those are three of perhaps a journal full of attacks made in the report, and "classifying" it doesn't add the report any credibility. You could "classify" the agenda of global communists and that certainly wouldn't add credibility to their viewpoints either.
Here, in a nutshell, is how this biased report can be used against the authors. If the Middle East is so "resistant" to change, as the authors quote, and if it is "pointless" to change dictatorial regimes and replace them with democracies, then why did the United States bother to do away with the Nazi regime? Why did we bother to do away with Japanese Empire? Why did we bother to attack Serbia and grab Milosovich? Why did we bother to confront the terror collective of the former Soviet Union?
Above all else, using the logic of the authors of the report, why bother giving the Palestinian Authority any credibility? Israel might as well scrap all negotiations with the Palestinians since the "classified" report discharged by the State Department seeks to convince with pseudo-enlightenment that no political involvement in the region leads to positive change. If that is true, that gives Israel the green-light to deal with the Palestinian issue out of a formal political construct.
In the State Department's leftist haste to attack President Bush's intent on the middle east, an idea the left understood increasingly that it could not ignore because of Bush's overwhelming credibility in just bringing the idea up, the left steps forward with old thought and geopolitical apathy.
The report quotes economic problems that democracy would find difficult to overcome--dictatorships deliberately create economic disparities in their internal populations. That is what dictatorships do. The populations under dictatorships are slaves. There is no economic parity for slaves.
Make the report public. A concealed leftist attack with a "classified" stamp on it only pulls intellectuals forward and makes them ponder what is going on inside the US State Department. I say that because there are no Islamic democracies in the Middle East, and for the US State Department to advise the President of the United States to allow the status quo there is pretty laughable. The State Department should have named their report: "The Protection of Terror States".
JK
The report was "classified", I believe, so that it could "air" a level of credibility that it does not possess. If it is such a striking and damning report, make it open-source and let some intellectuals take a look at it.
The logic used in the report, based upon the comments by "officials" who leaked parts of it, is directly attacking turning Iraq into a democracy. Peering into some of those quotes, it becomes clear how they are filled with status-quo old-thinking leftism. For example, the report says:
1) Freeing Iraqi citizens will not allow democracy to take root because of the socio-economic damage to Iraq.
2) That Islamic extremists would use the democratic process to subvert an emerging democracy in Iraq.
3) That the "domino theory" for spreading democracy in the middle east is doomed to failure.
Those are three of perhaps a journal full of attacks made in the report, and "classifying" it doesn't add the report any credibility. You could "classify" the agenda of global communists and that certainly wouldn't add credibility to their viewpoints either.
Here, in a nutshell, is how this biased report can be used against the authors. If the Middle East is so "resistant" to change, as the authors quote, and if it is "pointless" to change dictatorial regimes and replace them with democracies, then why did the United States bother to do away with the Nazi regime? Why did we bother to do away with Japanese Empire? Why did we bother to attack Serbia and grab Milosovich? Why did we bother to confront the terror collective of the former Soviet Union?
Above all else, using the logic of the authors of the report, why bother giving the Palestinian Authority any credibility? Israel might as well scrap all negotiations with the Palestinians since the "classified" report discharged by the State Department seeks to convince with pseudo-enlightenment that no political involvement in the region leads to positive change. If that is true, that gives Israel the green-light to deal with the Palestinian issue out of a formal political construct.
In the State Department's leftist haste to attack President Bush's intent on the middle east, an idea the left understood increasingly that it could not ignore because of Bush's overwhelming credibility in just bringing the idea up, the left steps forward with old thought and geopolitical apathy.
The report quotes economic problems that democracy would find difficult to overcome--dictatorships deliberately create economic disparities in their internal populations. That is what dictatorships do. The populations under dictatorships are slaves. There is no economic parity for slaves.
Make the report public. A concealed leftist attack with a "classified" stamp on it only pulls intellectuals forward and makes them ponder what is going on inside the US State Department. I say that because there are no Islamic democracies in the Middle East, and for the US State Department to advise the President of the United States to allow the status quo there is pretty laughable. The State Department should have named their report: "The Protection of Terror States".
JK