Charles Krauthammer is posting an essay on July 1, which I found at the Statesman.com. The essay is an exposition on why Amnesty For Insurgents is a necessary evil in our effort in nation sculpting. Whether Krauthammer admits it or not, he is a pre-eminent neocon intellectual. Krauthammer (as also I) was for taking out Saddam Hussein. Hussein was a threat to American National Interests.
The Neocon thing is to spread a democratic government that would be easier to deal with in the Middle East. That has been slow coming in Iraq; nonetheless it has been emerging regardless of or in spite of Democratic Party cut-n-run politicians.
The difficulty has been the lack of trust of a half-a-century of brainwashing of a Mohammedan populace. Whether it be Sunni or Shiite: religious and political propaganda machines have painted a horrible picture of Americans. Slowly and surely there is evidence that distrust is eroding in Iraq.
As Krauthammer is pointing out, it is time to toss some carrots for the rabbits to nibble on. Amnesty may be one carrot. Let us not get caught up in the savagery of the insurgence. Their mindset is to cast out the infidel, which is fueled by a little Islamofascism held over from Hussein's old Sunni buddies. The goal of the current Iraqi government is to transform the old mindset, it may take some time. So let us toss a few carrots to get some nibbles.
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