6/25/2004 07:11:16 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

There is a politically correct effort afoot in Congress to prevent the US Army from using Israeli made bullets in combat in the Middle East.

In short, this is silly, and quite frankly, could only be thought of by one of the myriad clueless lawmakers out of the 435 members of Congress. Bullets are typically used to, well, shudder the thought, Congressman Abercrombie (and the tag-along Republicans on this one), kill people. If we're to kill them, what worth is it to try to avoid offending them? Maybe the Israeli bullets will make Islamist militants spontaneously combust and easier to kill.

The argument states a public relations concern with the greater population of the Middle East if word gets out we're using infidel bullets. There may be some validity in that perspective, but overall, it simply feeds into an irrational and hateful attitude held by way too many in the region. The people must get over their anti-Semitic attitudes. We don't tolerate the least hint of racism in the United States, and the worst way it manifests itself now is in parades where there are more protesters than participants, and in a worse case scenario, one loses their job for racial reasons. The former is sad, the latter is actionable under federal and state law.

In the Middle East, racism results in death. And not just a little death, but a lot of death. Hamas and Hezbollah have stated aims of killing every Jew in Israel (a little over 6 million). In contrast, the racist organizations in the United States have to cloak their prejudice in symbolic language, and none I can think of nowadays advocate killing minorities. Still, those groups are roundly condemned and ostracized from mainstream society.

Racially based death is a mainstream opinion in the Arab world. Why the double standard? The Middle Eastern culture as it currently stands is, in fact, backwards. It is frozen in time, and has no future. The only future it does have, short of Allied involvement, is that of oppression, dictatorship, death, and destruction. We ought not cater to those peoples whose beliefs fuel this backwardness.

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