[Hunden]

" Zarqawi is a bigot and a killer, but he did not descend from the sky. He emerged out of the Arab world's sins of omission and commission; in the way he rails against the Shiites (and the Kurds) he expresses that fatal Arab inability to take in "the other."

[Billthedrill]

Outstanding find. BTT.

Zarqawi is a bigot and a killer, but he did not descend from the sky. He emerged out of the Arab world's sins of omission and commission...

Just so. The silence of the Arabs is damning. What will they tell the Iraqis when the latter ask them why they murdered so many of their people?

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

This is a terrific article: long, but well worth reading in its entirety. This bit explained an awful lot to me, regarding the ferocity of the "insurgents":

No one is under any illusions as to what the Sunni Arabs would have done had oil been located in their provinces. They would have disowned both north and south and opted for a smaller world of their own and defended it with the sword. But this was not to be, and their war is the panic of a community that fears that it could be left with a realm of "gravel and sand."

[wildcatf4f3]

forwarded

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great--thanks

[Red Boots]

I found these words of hope at the end :

A Kuwaiti businessman with an unerring feel for the ways of the Arab world put it thus to me: "Iraq, the Internet, and American power are undermining the old order in the Arab world. There are gains by the day."