Jerry Brito

Right and wrong

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My prediction that Iraq would Scud Israel was wrong. I was wrong about our troops getting gassed. At this point, I may even be wrong to think that Iraq has WMD at all. But I still don’t think I’m wrong about this war being a great recruitment poster for Al Qaeda. This is the kind of thing that will do the trick (from today’s NYT):

This morning, the ashes were still smoldering at the Ministry for Religious Affairs, where a building housing thousands of Korans, many of them illuminated and hand written, several a thousand years old, had been burned to a charred shell. It was another severe blow to Iraq’s 10,000 years of cultural history, along with the looting of the National Museum and the burning of the National Library, in which countless priceless artifacts and books were lost.

“When Baghdad fell to the Mongols in 1258, these books survived,” said Abdel Karim Anwar Obeid, 42, the ministry’s general manager for administration. “And now they didn’t survive. You can’t put a price on this loss.

“If you talk to any intellectual Muslims in the world, they are crying right now over this,” he added.

Apr 16, 2003 | Comments