What does the Arab world hear through our Iraq infighting?
Honestly, they're probably hearing that we're losing our national cohesiveness, that we've lost much of the will to fight -- as Osama predicted in 2001. Read more in my Los Angeles Daily News column today:
"During the week of the 'Petraeus/Betray us' brouhaha, an Arab-language satellite channel asked if I would come on and provide an American perspective on our internal debates over the Iraq war.
As things go in television, the segment was rain checked, but I couldn't stop thinking about the topic and the audience. After two weeks of wrangling over Gen. David Petraeus' testimony, MoveOn.org's discount ad treating the general like Benedict Arnold, congressional squabbling and proposed troop cutbacks, far-left ANSWER Coalition protests and more, how would I explain it all to a Middle Eastern audience?
How would I explain this ugly infighting among Americans to the average viewer in the Arab world?
As Khalid Sheikh Mohammed compares Osama bin Laden to our great Gen. George Washington, how would they view the barbs Americans have thrown at our four-star general shouldered with the unenviable task of commanding forces in Iraq?
And how can I tell viewers that the venom being spewed across our airwaves and on our streets isn't indicative of America?
Or is it?"
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