Friday, August 13, 2004

Why am I not surprised?

the Poles are with the Nazis this time, so to speak, except that the Poland of today bears no resemblance to yesteryear’s sad and noble country of the same name.

a filipino journalist's comparison of the WWII polish uprising with the trouble created by islamic militants in najaf is simply one of the insanities that he or she can easily get away with. fully appealing to the historical ignorance of the paper's readers, this editorial tries to make a false equivalence between the struggle of the poles with that of the najaf muslims.

even if one is half educated with the polish uprising, one would easily detect the inconsistencies in the comparision between these two events.

the americans aren't doing nazi style suppression of culture and national identity as what took place in war time poland. in fact, the americans are trying to get iraq back on its feet. they didn't target iraqi intellectuals and leaders and sent them to prison or their deaths, but rather placed them in authority. and most of the fighting done againsts al sadr's men in najaf is done by iraqi forces. iraqis themselves are tired of the troublemakers whose exploits are venturing unto criminal behavior (wholly incomparable with that of the poles) and are the ones doing the fighting in the holy sites. americans surely don't want to alienate iraqis by going into their sacred places, so they prefer to iragis themselves to settle the insurgency and help out only when they are most needed.

somebody should educate this editorial's writer.

but the bigger question i must ask myself is why i still keep reading such insanities from that paper... perhaps i enjoy distrubing humor daily spewed and vomitted by our fearless journalists. perhaps.

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