REFLECTIONS

If you are wondering what deep thoughts I have about the revolutions in the Arab world, rent Lawrence of Arabia.  When you get to the point where someone says “you are a little people barbarous and cruel,”  I’m done.  That’s as deep as my thoughts go.

It amazes me how many people are convinced the street fighters and rioters are the “good guys.”  These same good guys in Egypt are rioting to keep the right to mutilate their daughters and lose more wars with Israel.  Maybe there just aren’t any good guys.  Andrew McCarthy sums it up very well, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/261063/libyas-makeover-andrew-c-mccarthy

Yes, yes, I know: We are not supposed to look at Libyans now as they appeared the last time we took notice: a cheering throng greeting Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie terrorist, … Nor are we supposed to register that Qaddafi’s main opponents in this 97 percent Muslim country are Islamists who have about as much use for us as they do for Colonel Crazy. No, this is to be the desperately wished-for Arab awakening, so we are to take the Libyans as noble secularists who just want to throw off the yoke of tyranny and establish democracy (and never you mind the sharia).

Or to quote another great American movie, “Frankly I just don’t give a damn.”