Sunday - April 08, 2007

Is it Better to Be Loved or Feared

It seems that the U.S., afflicted by the 40 years of feminization, the U.S.A. made a horrible mistake by not confronting al-Sadr and his Shiite militia.  "Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved?" 

We tried the left's approach.  We treated al-Sadr with a velvet glove.  We tried to make him and his followers like us and it has failed miserably.  Now it is time to give them reason to fear.

"Because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only."

Got that?  By trying to be the good guy, we have allowed al-Sadr's militia to destabilize Iraq and kill our soldiers.  It is time to move against al-Sadr.  He will not become a martyr.  Rather, Iraqis will be glad that another source of violence is gone and that their life and property are more secure.

What brings forth the quotes from The Prince?

Al-Sadr commands an enormous following among Iraq's majority Shiites and has close allies in the Shiite-dominated government. The statement Sunday carried his seal and was distributed in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where the cleric called for an enormous demonstration to mark the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.

"You, the Iraqi army and police forces, don't walk alongside the occupiers, because they are your archenemy," the al-Sadr statement said.

(AP) A man covers a victim of a mortar attack on the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Sunday,...

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He urged his followers not to attack fellow Iraqis but to turn all their efforts on American forces.

"God has ordered you to be patient in front of your enemy, and unify your efforts against them - not against the sons of Iraq," the statement said.

Al-Sadr apparently issued the statement in response to three days of clashes between his Mahdi Army militiamen and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad.

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