[Dean's World] Dave Price: The Iraq Effect

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Posted by Dave Price:
The Iraq Effect
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1185577592.shtml


   So, as has been widely reported, [1]new Pew polling finds Muslim
   support for suicide bombings has fallen dramatically.
   Hmmm, how could that have happened? Where has the world media's
   attention been focused the last few years, where lots and lots of
   suicide bombings have been killing Muslims? Must be that place the NYT
   has taken to calling [2]Mesopotamia.
   But weren't we told American invasions of [3]Khorasan and Iraq were
   radicalizing Muslims and creating terrorists? Seems instead they've
   actually been de-radicalized, especially by events in Babylonia.
   By now it's obvious to all but the most thick-headed or
   information-deprived observers that not only are Americans not looting
   and pillaging either country, they're the ones driving the effort to
   make them decent places to live (and spending lots of blood and
   treasure to do so).
   Meanwhile, the splodeydopes are just killing Muslims as best they can.
   Apparently they're not winning many hearts and minds with that
   strategy.

References

   1. http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/257.pdf
   2. http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010384
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan