Thursday, May 27, 2004

THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
Yeah, I know I'm late on this, but I've been busy and wanted to give the president's speech on 5/24 the attention it deserved.

After having done so, I can report that, apart from announcing plans for destruction of Abu Ghraib prison, the president didn't say much that was new. I'm glad that he finally (finally!) saw fit to actually comunicate with the American people about what's going on in Iraq and what he plans to do about it, which apparently mostly involves saying the word "freedom" a lot.

It's obvious that the president is still operating under his "with us or agin' us" schema for the War on Terror, which I think tends to cloud for him the fact that, at this point, many if not most Iraqis want to be free from U.S. domination every bit as much as they want to avoid theocratic authoritarianism. That's not to imply moral equivalence between U.S. forces and the jihadists, but there is something to be said for a native enemy versus one from a foreign (and historically invasive) culture.

This is a problem for reformers across the Middle East, as many liberal-minded Arabs try to walk a line between Islamism, with its populist appeal, and overt, outright Western secularism, which many see as requiring a rejection of their heritage. Reformers don't want to be seen as puppets of the West, indeed they must avoid this at all costs if their reforms are to make any headway toward popular support. So how do the U.S. and the West work to encourage these reformers without tainting them in the eyes of potential supporters? How does the West involve itself in the development of "liberalism with an Arab face"?

If I had the answer to that, my team of assistants would be writing this and I would be making my secondary assault on the buffet at a think-tank seminar somewhere.

Thomas Friedman has some good ideas, though. He's wicked smart.

(small gripe about the Friedman article: I think the idea of a gas tax is good, it's a notion that's been gaining a lot of support (most notably from Andrew Sullivan and Charles Krauthammer, two free-market conservatives) and is way past due. But I'm strongly against calling it the "Patriot Tax," as Friedman suggests. I don't think the term 'patriot' should be tied to one or another political platform or ideology, because the implication there is that if one does not agree with said ideology, then one is not a patriot. Case in point: The Patriot Act. Whatever one thinks of its specific provisions, I think it has degraded the concept of patriotism by attempting to moor it to a particular time and attitude ("It's 9/11! We're all freaked out! Who's not a patriot? We'll use this law to find out!") Well, I'm a patriot, and I think the Patriot Act was poorly and hastily written. So there.)

posted by Matt Duss @ 11:30 AM

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