Comments on: Seeing Islam Through a Lens of U.S. Hubris

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I don't see how viewing things you don't understand through one's normal context translates into "imperial hubris." Anonymous could reasonably make that case, but he doesn't bother.

By: vdibart

vdibart — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I think you might have missed an important but easily overlooked route to victory - defeat the enemies hostile intent. You miss the point when you say it doesn't matter if they "hate us because weâre free or because of the manifestations of our freedom". Do Americans never wonder why they hate us at all? This isn't a pacifist stance, it's introspective. Why do the Iraqi people deserve freedom but the Palestinian people don't? If your home was bulldozed wouldn't that policy seem biased to you?

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Ummm...who said the Palestinians don't have the right to be free?

By: vdibart

vdibart — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Ummm.....what have we done to help them attain freedom? Invade Iraq?

By: Boyd

Boyd — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Wow, thanks for the insight, Paul. Until you explained it, I never realized that trying to make sense of things that are totally foreign to you inevitably results in racism and genocide. Everything makes sense now.

By: ducktape

ducktape — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Until you explained it, I never realized that trying to make sense of things that are totally foreign to you inevitably results in racism and genocide.

Are you being dense on purpose, or can you just not help it?

When confronted with something totally foreign, you actually do have the choice of educating yourself first, before you try to make sense of it.

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I have long experience analyzing and attacking Bin Laden and Islamists. I believe they are a growing threat to the United States â there is no greater threat â and that we are being defeated not because the evidence of the threat is unavailable but because we refuse to accept it at face value and without Americanizing the data. This must change, or our way of life will be unrecognizably altered.

I wasn't under the impression we were being defeated.

By: Little Miss Attila

Little Miss Attila — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

All You've Got to Do is Win
Anonymous (the author of Imperial Hubris) gives us this: In order to make the decisions and allocate the resources needed to ensure U.S. security, Americans must understand the world as it is, not as we want â or worse yet,...

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