The people who have been arrested, are people who have a tribal link of some kind, to the UnPersons (not POWs, not criminals, not on U.S. soil) at Guantanamo. They speak the same language, pray to the same God. Something in common, other than just belonging to the same species, is needed, for any "natural sympathy" to be elicited.
Israel and India have almost no Muslims in their armed forces. The U.S. desperately needs Arabic-speakers, and people who understand the local culture in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, the tribal distrust, is probably going to make it hard to recruit them, hard to retain them, hard for the rest of the military to trust them. This is probably going to be a chronic problem. |
