Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Our Newest Op Ed
Our Lefties (The People Of The Slogan)
- By R.A. Hawkins
Reading Steve Vincent's In The Red Zone has been an interesting experience. He offered some unfiltered Iraqi viewpoints that were quite refreshing. One of them was that the people don't like our liberals either. They call them the people of the slogan. Those are the people that have some idyllic idea of how the world should work that differs from reality, and in ways that only they can explain. He said most of our reporters sit around in coffee houses and wait for people to give them information they can comment on. They usually stay in what is known as the Green Zone.
Steve was also present for a celebration that hasn't been allowed since Saddam took over the country. That celebration was called Ashura. He managed to get a cab driver to take him for all of the festivities. He had some interesting notes regarding the celebration. He said that the Shia celebration was not an uplifting celebration at all. But he also said that it offered some interesting insights into the Arab mind. At the very end of the celebration he had to ask himself 'Is this it? There is no uplifting spiritual message here? No thought of the sacrifice for things of the other world?' He concluded that it was a celebration of misery and death. It was a reenactment of a slaughter from times past. He also mentioned that dying leaders have twice cursed the people for being impossible to rule. This is part of the Iraqi legacy. I suspect that observation may have been the reason for his murder..............
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- By R.A. Hawkins
Reading Steve Vincent's In The Red Zone has been an interesting experience. He offered some unfiltered Iraqi viewpoints that were quite refreshing. One of them was that the people don't like our liberals either. They call them the people of the slogan. Those are the people that have some idyllic idea of how the world should work that differs from reality, and in ways that only they can explain. He said most of our reporters sit around in coffee houses and wait for people to give them information they can comment on. They usually stay in what is known as the Green Zone.
Steve was also present for a celebration that hasn't been allowed since Saddam took over the country. That celebration was called Ashura. He managed to get a cab driver to take him for all of the festivities. He had some interesting notes regarding the celebration. He said that the Shia celebration was not an uplifting celebration at all. But he also said that it offered some interesting insights into the Arab mind. At the very end of the celebration he had to ask himself 'Is this it? There is no uplifting spiritual message here? No thought of the sacrifice for things of the other world?' He concluded that it was a celebration of misery and death. It was a reenactment of a slaughter from times past. He also mentioned that dying leaders have twice cursed the people for being impossible to rule. This is part of the Iraqi legacy. I suspect that observation may have been the reason for his murder..............
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 8/30/2005 02:00:00 PM 
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