Know them by their works

Here is another tidbit from the second part of Oleg Atbashian's essay from Pajamas Media:

Any objective onlooker will see this as a fight between good and evil. What’s the middle ground here? It can only exist as a vague subjective notion inside an individual reporter’s head. Trying to be objective by being subjective is patently absurd, yet this is what happens when reason is replaced by feel-good “progressive” morality. The result is an abandonment of any objective criteria and moral standards. A compromise between good and evil is always a victory for evil.

Objectivity can’t be relative; neither can be morality. Thinking otherwise results in the sorry state the Western media is today.

In the fantasy world created by activist reporters indiscriminate murderers who want to terrorize the Iraqis into submission by blowing up markets become idealistic freedom fighters. The American troops protecting the Iraqis and their freedoms from terrorists become immoral and murderous occupiers. How hard is it really to discern the objective criteria in this picture? All one has to do is to look at the ultimate goals of the both parties and the means used to achieve them. Yet many people find this rather easy task of observation almost impossible.

Again he makes a damn good point. The goal which America is working for in Iraq is a free and prosperous nation in which people, as individuals, may decide for themselves how they wish to live their lives. In Iraq after American victory any Iraqi who wishes to be a Muslim will be free to do so. Any Iraqi woman who wishes to wear a headscarf or the full head to toe covering may do so. Anyone who wishes to attend an Islamic university and devote his life to the study of the Koran may do so. However anyone who wishes to renounce Islam may do so freely. He may renounce Islam in order to convert to Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or any other faith or no faith at all, becoming an atheist. And he may do this with no fear of being arrested by the religious police or being stoned by an enraged mob led by some venomous imam.

In an Iraq after the American victory any woman may travel outside her home without a male escort. Any woman may dress in Western fashions, even mini skirts and halter tops if she wishes, without fear of those religious police or venomous imams and enraged mobs. She may attend school all the way up through the university and study law or medicine or astrophysics or any other damn thing she pleases.

In an Iraq after the American victory that woman may reject a marriage arranged for her by her family and choose whom she wishes to marry for herself, or she may choose to marry no one. In that Iraq a homosexual of either sex could live openly without fear of the aforementioned religious police, venomous imams and enraged mobs.

In Iraq after America wins the oil wealth will be used to build infrastructure and schools and hospitals. It will be used to build an industrial base and educate the nation's young so that the nation will not be nothing without its oil like Saudi Arabia and Iran and all the other oil rich Middle Eastern nations are.

But what would an Iraq look like after a US defeat? Women would be treated the same way they are in Iran or were in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Remember the school for girls that caught fire in Saudi Arabia and the religious police surrounded it and wouldn't let the girls flee because they weren't wearing proper Islamic head coverings? You've heard about the arranged marriages in Islamic societies where a 13-year-old girl is given to her 65-year-old uncle because he gave her father a couple of goats and a new prayer rug? You've heard about the homosexuals buried alive and the rape victims stoned to death by their families to "restore honor"?

Imagine the oil wealth of Iraq being used to support international terrorism and nuclear weapons programs.

In an Iraq after America is driven out in defeat there would be no freedom of the press, no opposition political parties and no freedom to worship as ones conscience dictated.

Which Iraq would you want to live in? If you would only want to live in an Iraq after American victory then I assume that you support American victory. Otherwise you are the worst kind of hypocrite.