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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - January 15, 2010
Why Are They at War With Us?
by Pat Buchanan
"We are at war. We are at war against al-Qaida, a far-
reaching network of violence and hatred that attacked us
on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 innocent people and that
is plotting to strike us again."
Thus did Barack Obama clear the air as to whether we are
at war, and with whom and why.
Following his remarks, during a White House briefing by
National Security Council aide John Brennan, Helen Thomas
asked a follow-up question to which we almost never hear
an answer:
Why is al-Qaida at war with us? What is its motivation?
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It was Osama bin Laden himself, in his declaration of war
in 1998, published in London, who gave al-Qaida's reasons
for war:
First, the U.S. military presence on the sacred soil of
Saudi Arabia. Second, U.S. sanctions causing terrible
suffering among the Iraqi people. Third, U.S. support for
Israel's dispossession of the Palestinians. "All these
crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear
declaration of war on God, his Messenger and Muslims,"
said Osama.
He began his fatwa quoting the Koran: "But when the
forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the pagans
wherever ye find them, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie
in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
To Osama, we started the war. Muslims, the ulema, must
fight because America, with her "brutal crusade occupation
of the (Arabian) Peninsula" and support for "the Jews'
petty state" and "occupation of Jerusalem and murder of
Muslims there" was waging war upon the Islamic world.
Terrorism, the direct killing of civilians for political
ends, is al-Qaida's unconventional tactic, but its war
aims are quite conventional.
Al-Qaida is fighting a religious war against apostates and
pagans in their midst, a civil war against collaborators
of the Crusaders and an anti-colonial war to drive us out
of the Dar al-Islam. On Sept. 11, they were over here --
because we are over there.
Nothing justifies the massacre of Sept. 11. But these are
the political goals behind the 9/11 attack, and this is
why Islamists fare well in elections in the Middle East.
Tens of millions of Muslims, who may despise terrorism,
identify with the causes for which Osama declared war --
liberation of Muslim peoples from pro-American autocrats
and Israeli occupiers.
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Americans are being killed for the reasons Osama said we
should be killed -- not because of who we are, but because
of where we are and what we do.
Consider. America lost 4,000 soldiers in six years in Iraq,
with 30,000 wounded. Yet not one American of the 125,000
soldiers in Iraq was killed in December. Why not? Because
we no longer conduct raids, patrol streets, kick down doors
and pat down suspects. We have ended our combat operations,
withdrawn to desert bases and seem anxious to go home. When
we stopped fighting and killing them, they stopped fighting
and killing us.
Most Americans today appear content to let Shia and Sunni,
Arab and Kurd decide the future of Iraq. And if they cannot
settle their quarrels without a civil-sectarian war, why
should their war be our war?
According to Gen. Barry McCaffrey, we must now prepare for
300 to 500 dead and wounded every month in Afghanistan by
summer.
Why are the Taliban killing our soldiers? Because we threw
them out of power, took over their country and imposed the
Hamid Karzai regime, and our troops, some 100,000 by fall,
are the force preventing them from recapturing their
country. We will bleed in Afghanistan as long as we are in
Afghanistan.
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But if, as Obama said, "we are at war with al-Qaida," why
are we fighting Taliban when al-Qaida is in Pakistan,
Yemen, Somalia and North Africa?
Hamas has used terrorism, but not against us. Hezbollah
has used terrorism, but not against us since the bombing
of the Marine barracks, a quarter-century ago. And our
Marines were attacked in Lebanon because we were in
Lebanon, intervening in their civil-sectarian war. Had
the Marines not been sent into the midst of that war,
they would not have been targeted.
When Ronald Reagan withdrew them, the attacks stopped.
Like Europe's Thirty Years' War -- among Germans, French,
Czechs, Dutch, Danes, Swedes, Scots and English, Catholics
and Protestants, kings, princes and emperors -- the Muslim
world is roiled by conflicts between pro-Western autocrats
and Islamic militants, Sunni and Shia, modernists and
obscurantists, nationalities, tribes and clans. The outcome
of these wars, the future of their lands -- is that not
their business, and not ours?
The Muslims stayed out of our Thirty Years' War. Perhaps
we would do well to get out of theirs. But as long as we
take sides in their wars, those we fight and kill over
there will come to kill us over here.
This is payback for our intervention. This is the price of
empire. This is the cost of the long war.
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