IRAQ WITHOUT SADDAM
by Emanuel A. Winston • Monday December 30, 2002 at 03:16 PM
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The author, Emanuel A. Winston, is a well respected Middle East analyst.
Iraq without Saddam could be the engine to pull the entire Arab world into an era of prosperity, progress and democracy.
There is little doubt that Iraq and the rest of the Arab world has been consigned to a primitive, backward status by their custom of having war-lords or dictators control their lives.
Iraq is an excellent example of a nation with enormous potential but none of it used for its citizens. Its wealth has been exclusively used to maintain a massive army, development laboratories for conventional and non-conventional weapons, factories to produce weapons and finally dozens of palaces for Saddam. These palaces double for bomb shelters which sponge up Billions of dollars that could otherwise be used for entering the 21st century.
Liberating Iraq can not only free the people from the oppressive rule of Saddam Hussein but, raise them from poverty, ignorance and a backwardness. We had better do it quickly before the companion nations of Iran and Syria believe themselves capable of taking on the West with their growing armory of NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical) weapons.
Clues to the coming convulsion of the population of our planet Earth with a frenzy of killing and self immolation are obvious - just as they have been in times past. The most obvious precursors are the attacks against the Jews across Europe. Within that clue is the ever-present failure of the Europeans to face the real enemy while directing their frustration at those least able to defend themselves against misplaced bias, Eg., The Jews.
Some call this the "Neville Chamberlain Syndrome". Denial of reality by the Europeans is a clear indicator that terrible things are about to knock on the door and cross the threshold. Taking Iraq down in one massive blow will shock the Arab world away from its insane path of Islamic destruction, both for itself and us in the Free Western Democracies.
Those waiting and dragging their feet, the artful "avoiders" are out in force. History shows us that, before every war, before every assault, there is a time of staging by the enemy - a time of getting ready, a time when the enemy probes the weak points of his intended victims. It’s all there for the victim to see - unless they do not want to see.
Unless they (the victims) think they can appease the predator by throwing bits and pieces of their land into their greedy maw. However, instead of being appeased, this only increases the appetite of the aggressor(s). It wasn’t only the example of Hitler being fed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by cowardly, trembling European nations who were anxious to save themselves by betraying others.
History is replete with examples of nations betraying allies trying to pacify aggressor nations and always ending up with themselves being the ones who are eaten. If they were lucky, they were only enslaved and absorbed. If they were unlucky, they were slaughtered.
Nations like Iraq are not very sympathetic to the suffering they will cause to their victims. Recall how Saddam’s very primitive troops (accompanied by Arafat’s Terrorists) swept over Kuwait, raping, pillaging, slaughtering - with that wild pleasure so endemic to Arab culture. Such rampaging makes for the building of reputations of Islamic warriors with much bragging in the cafes and to their women. Those who now caution restraint in facing such enemies are the same short-sighted fools found in every generation who artfully avoid necessary confrontation until it is too late. When their judgement proves faulty, causing massive casualties, be assured that they duck out of sight while managing to blame others. Excellent examples are George Bush, Sr., and James Baker preserving Saddam in 1991 and the Oslo Gang resurrecting and preserving Yassir Arafat in 1982, 1993 through to the present.
President George W. Bush is being cautioned to be restrained by European pacifists always first to surrender and then bleat for rescue. Then we have the Arabists in The State Department who seem to be more advocates of the Arab nations and oil companies than they do the nation who employs them - America.
Then, there is the gaggle of politicians and generals who are best serving the ROTC in high schools, rather than as warriors prepared to fight the enemy in real time. Of course, don’t forget the corporate gluttons who sell the Arab nations the very weapons that will eventually kill our soldiers or explode in our cities. Sometimes they are called the "Enemy Within".
Presently, the "wait and see" advisors are insisting that Israel not act pre-emptively against Arab nations who have weapons that can wipe out this small outpost of Democracy with a single strike. Israel has her own gaggle of Oslo pacifists who have tried to feed her implacable enemies bits and pieces of her land - only to increase their appetite for all of Israel - as they openly proclaim.
Having failed numerous times to satiate the appetite of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya - through appeasement - a sensible nation would cease weakening itself. Instead, those who committed Oslo wish to again make the same offers of appeasement as they once again try to resurrect Arafat and his Terrorists.
The question now: Is America going to follow the same bad example and advise it gave to Isarel? Will America wait for nations like Iraq, Syria and Iran to achieve a level of armament with area-wide weapons so that it cannot be attacked without devastating casualties against itself?
Israel’s leaders have chosen to risk sacrificing her people for the sake of winning a transient approval from Europeans and Americans who are connected to the Arab nations by its hind oil tit. That is their choice but, must America go down the same path of destruction, following its own mistaken advise of restraint that it has foisted on its best ally in the Middle East, Israel?
The "restrainers" are advising President Bush that, if Saddam is taken out as head of Iraq, they would be chaos. They ignore the passing in death of those like Hitler, Stalin, Hafez al Assad, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and others. There was no vacuum or chaos. They were replaced and things usually got better. If and when Saddam goes, the money from the oil under Iraq could reconstruct the nation, provide real schooling, medical facilities, building of a commercial/industrial infrastructure and finally be an example for the backward nations of Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.
Those who cannot or will not see the future, have no future. Unfortunately, their denial and artful avoidance drag all of us down into the same pit.
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