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Immediately after, and for at least months after, polls of Iraqi citizens showed > 50% support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. It's dropped below that now,
by ellyagg 15y ago
Immediately after, and for at least months after, polls of Iraqi citizens showed > 50% support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. It's dropped below that now, but that certainly demonstrates that there is no uniform Arab thought. As others, they are capable of more sophisticated moral reasoning than "our tribe versus theirs" and detecting the possibility of the toppling of a barbaric regime even by people whose cultura/nationality/skin color differs from their own.
- hasenj 15y agoI didn't say or even try to imply "all Arabs" or "all Americans". Plenty of Americans also marched against the war. What I'm trying to say is, you see people hitting the metaphorical "like" button on something and you immediately assume there's only one explanation for this: these people are evil/rats. This is very wrong. Actually, speaking of the split in Iraq, this is one of the reasons. Various groups had different outlook on the events taking place, and ended up viewing each other as evil scumbags. Next thing you know is people are killing each other.