Dictators, Security, and Hypocrisy

The Iraqis should be grateful to us for getting rid of Sadam. They are free now. Why are they so upset about the lack of security and electricity?

I’m willing to give up a few of my civil liberties if it will keep me safer.

The Iraq War is the most important front in the War on Terror.

I have more important things to do than volunteer to fight, or pay, for the Iraq War.

How can anyone agree with all of the statements above? Yet I keep hearing these same statements from the same people.

We expect the Iraqis to live with daily bombings, kidnappings, and murder because that is the cost of freedom. But, we can’t let people board an airplane with a bottle of water because maybe, it might be dangerous. We praise the Iraqis who voted despite death threats. But, we question the patriotism of anyone who asks a question of our leaders .

The only conclusion I can make from this, is that the Iraqis are a courageous, intelligent people, while America is the land of the cowed, and the home of the timid. Does this mean that a true American patriot is an admirer of the Iraqi people?