Try Explaining Freedom-to-Know to a Warlord
The Bush administration is in trouble for lying about the justification for a war in Iraq.
The Army and the Pentagon are in deep trouble for interrogation procedures.
Those are facts that set the Muslim world dancing in the streets and make various other anti-American hearts beat just a little faster. One can imagine Jacques Chirac stifling a smile over his evening cognac, Gerhardt Shroeder wagging a knowing German finger and various Arab governments nervously wondering where events will take them from here. Just what we deserve, they crow and are joined in that by a substantial percentage of the American public.
And it is just what we deserve. Not only what we deserve, but what we have self-inflicted and that, in fact, is the wonderment of it all and what makes us unique from all but a very few governments of the world. The salient fact is that, in both situations, the truth came from inside rather than outside America.
Muslim hatreds didn’t bring us to our knees. The “Arab street,” howe…