[fortheDeclaration]

In Saudi Arabia -- the birthplace of Islam and of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, whose group carried out bombings in the country -- residents said insurgents were to blame for taking their battle into mosques. "If I was in the U.S. soldier's place I would have killed all the insurgents because they are mercenaries," said Saudi Zaher al-Saleh, a 32-year-old teacher. "They have turned the mosques into battlefields and they're killing civilians."

Hey, my kind of Arab!

[Racehorse]

"If I was in the U.S. soldier's place I would have killed all the insurgents because they are mercenaries," said Saudi Zaher al-Saleh, a 32-year-old teacher. "They have turned the mosques into battlefields and they're killing civilians."

Hey, my kind of Arab!

Indeed.  A lot of our counter-outrage is misdirected, I think.  Especially, when you consider that like every other racial/ethnic group from around the world, a fair number are our fellow citizens.  There ought to be some code we might use to distinguish one from the other.

The easy, seemingly manic enthusiasm with which the so-called insurgents murder and butcher not only foreigners, but their own, reminds of a scene from Lawrence of Arabia.  Ali (Omar Sharif) kills Lawrence's guide for drinking from his tribal well.  Lawrence tells him, "So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people -- greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."

The outrage of the little, silly people is certainly even more misdirected.  All they have to do is take charge, hold their damn elections, maintain the peace, and we'll go home--or at least, withdraw to our forward bases elsewhere in the region.