Let’s see, going through his laundry list, the first complaint is that we have a policy of “ruling them through surrogates.” Well, if we supposedly have our surrogates ruling in Iraq, we’re doing a damn poor job of keeping them under control, since it seems every day there appears another article about the Iranian-Shiite alliance (almost completely false, with the exception of Sadr, by the way). In any case, the new Iraqi government is not our surrogates…one only has to look at how the candidates closely tied to the U.S. (Allawi and Chalabi) did in the recent elections.

Next, we have the accusation that “The US assaults Muslim sensitivities with the export of “American culture,” a euphemism for sexual promiscuity.” The U.S. doesn’t force our culture on anyone. This is a typical leftist argument that poor/oppressed native people “want” it that way. It’s the same sentiment as when leftists get upset that a native people have been “westernized” so that they are no longer dying because their drinking water is now pure. How DARE we interfere to improve their quality of life and/or give them other options than wearing a burka their entire life!

And finally, we have the standard oil/Israel argument. Pretty simple to debunk…how much oil has the U.S. stolen from Iraq? As for Israel, their interim PM just came out the other day and said they had to withdraw even more from the territories, coming on the heels of a complete withdrawal from Gaza.

(Again, sorry for the length…just can’t seem to control myself tonight…am putting off doing research for a solar plane I’m designing.)