from NY to Israel Sultan Reveals
The Stories Behind the News

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 07:54 PM PST

If you listen to the outraged wails of leftists and Muslims, you might
reasonably be under the impression that the United States is in the
business of persecuting Muslims. The reality is radically different. If
anything American policies should have made us the Muslims' best
friends.

Before 9/11, the United States had
fought two wars on behalf of Muslims, the Gulf War under George Bush Sr.
and the Kosovo War under Bill Clinton. In fact during the second half of
the 20th century, the only wars that the United States fought that were
not against Communism or Nazism-- were fought on behalf of Muslims. That
is not a fact that you will glean from any of the usual media portrayals
of the United States foreign policy as hostile to Muslims. In fact US
foreign policy was about as helpful to Muslims as you can imagine.

Until 9/11, the United States had never invaded and occupied a
single sovereign Muslim country. The closest it came was the First Barbary
War in 1801, in response to piracy against American vessels and the
liberation of North Africa from Hitler's Vichy allies in WW2. And of
course the misguided attempt at participating in a peacekeeping force in
Beirut.

Not only that, America had developed much of the oil wealth
that would keep the Gulf States in gold, skyscrapers and slave labor. And
when the leaders of the Gulf States seized American oil companies, the
United States government did not fight a war, as England did when Nasser
nationalized the Suez Canal, instead the US government paid oil companies
to take the loss... out of taxpayer money.

The fear of a Communist
takeover helped turn America into one of the biggest patrons of Muslim
countries, from the Middle East to Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan. America
willingly closed its eyes to Indonesia's genocide in East Timor, and even
supplied them with weapons. America provided the weapons and funding that
Pakistan would channel into the Taliban. And naturally we ignored Turkey's
pesky little genocide of the Armenians and avoided ever discussing the
issue.

So by 9/11, not only had America repeatedly sent soldiers to
fight and die for Muslims in two wars... but it had robbed its own
taxpayers rather than challenge them over the nationalization of the
assets of American companies, and had proved willing to aid and even
overlook the genocides of Muslim regimes. So naturally by the warped logic
of leftists and Muslims... American foreign policy was "oppressive" to
Muslims.

The root of the leftist critique of American foreign
policy typically rests on two planks. The first blames America for
supporting dictators in Muslim countries. This would be a more legitimate
critique if there were any free and democratic Muslim countries around. As
it was, America simply supported whoever was in power and wasn't allied
with the USSR. This might have been an immoral policy, but during the Cold
War it was a continuation of the same kind of thinking that caused the US
to ally with the USSR against Nazi Germany.

The left's implication
was always that by supporting dictators in Muslim countries, the United
States was preventing the rise of more legitimate governments. It is not
clear where these legitimate governments were or how they were ever
supposed to arise. Syria is a dictatorship without us ever supporting
Assad. Egypt was a dictatorship when it was allied with the USSR under
Nasser. It is still a dictatorship now that it is allied with us under
Mubarak. When the Shah of Iran was overthrown, the left wing appeasement
corps working for Jimmy Carter decided not to interfere. The result was
not a democratic government or even a leftist one, but a radical Islamist
one under the Ayatollahs.

The second plank is of course Israel. The
United States did decide to finally cultivate Israel as an ally back under
JFK in the 60's. This was in sharp contrast to far longer US ties with the
House of Saud or the Eisenhower Administration's willingness to destroy
England's economy in order to protect Egypt's nationalization of the Suez
Canal. And the United States has provided Israel with billions in aid. As
well as providing billions in aid to Egypt and Jordan. Not to mention the
aid given to Turkey and Pakistan. Or the cost of the first Gulf War
undertaken to liberate Kuwait and protect Saudi Arabia from Saddam
Hussein.

As a matter of fact the US relationship with the Saudis
has been far more uncritical and generous than with Israel. At no point in
time has the US tried to force the Saudis to stop treating half their
population like cattle, end their dependence on Southeast Asian slave
labor... or even done much of anything for US citizens who find themselves
in Saudi jails on trumped up charges.

There is of course no doubt
that US arms sales to Israel have angered Muslim nations, just as US arms
sales to Taiwan have angered China. But at the same time there is also no
doubt that the same general sense of hostility would exist in both cases,
even if the US is able to sell out Israel as successfully as it sold out
Taiwan.

In any case, to argue that American support for
Israel oppresses Muslims, is to argue that American support for any
country that Muslims have a grievance against-- which at latest count
includes a sizable portion of the globe, oppresses Muslims. As such the
United States would not be allowed to have any allies that have not first
been approved by Muslims. Which would turn over American foreign policy to
Islam.

If America is forbidden from allying with both Muslim
countries and non-Muslim countries, that Muslims oppose, then American
foreign policy would be in the hands of Muslims. Which is exactly what
Muslims and their American spokesmen accuse Jews of.

Furthermore,
the countries hostile to Israel are the very same Arab dictatorships that
we are being hypocritically assailed for supporting. Which means that this
plank also resolves itself into one of those arguments that we can't win.
If we support existing Muslim governments, we're oppressing Muslims. If we
interfere with them, we're oppressing Muslims. If we support non-Muslim
governments in countries that have Muslim minorities... you guessed it,
we're oppressing Muslims.

When the tide of logic passes, it
becomes quite clear that both these planks are hollow and rotten. They
represent Catch 22 arguments in which America loses no matter what it
does. If we support Arab countries, then we're upholding their tyrannical
regimes. If we fail to support them, then we're hostile to the Muslim
world. If we create a Palestinian Arab state, then we're to blame because
it's not big enough. If we wash our hands of the whole affair, then we're
isolationists.

The bottom line is that there is absolutely nothing
that we can do that will not lead to accusations that we are oppressing
Muslims, followed by terrorist attacks.

But the fact of the matter
is that the United States has done more for the Muslim world than anyone
else. When Afghanistan was invaded by the USSR, no Arab country stepped
forth in their defense. Instead they all remained silent because of their
own Soviet ties. Instead it was the United States that sent arms and
advisors to the Mujahadeen.

After the overthrow of the Shah, the
United States could have provided legitimacy to any one of a number of
factions, instead Carter decided to legitimate the Ayatollah Khomeni. The
result was the first Shiite Islamist regime in the world. And it would not
have happened had the United States not undermined the Shah and then
treated Khomeni as Iran's future under the Green Belt Strategy.

When Saddam invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, it was the
United States that led a coalition to liberate Kuwait and back Saddam
down. When Yugoslavia tried to preserve itself against Kosovar Albanian
Muslim terror, it was the United States that bombed Yugoslavia, and handed
the Muslim Albanians their victory. And after decades of Soviet backed
terrorism by Arafat had failed to destroy Israel, it was the United States
that stepped in and muscled Israel into providing him with a state.

Indeed the rise of Islamism can be credited to American foreign
policy. While the USSR tried to back Arab Socialist states such as
Saddam's Iraq, or Assad's Syria or Nasser's Egypt-- the United States
embraced Islamist tyrannies such as the House of Saud and General
Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan. We backed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan over the
Soviet puppet regime. We continued funding Arafat's Fatah, even as it
became one of the world's leading innovators in suicide bombings and
martyrdom. With Kosovo, we helped create the first Muslim state in Europe,
and a direct route for smuggling slaves and drugs into Western Europe, as
we fought on the same side as Al Queda and Iran... against our former
Serbian allies.

If anything the Muslims of the world should be
getting down on their knees and thrusting their asses into the air five
times a day to thank us, not Allah. Allah did not provide the Stingers
with which to shoot down Russian aircraft, or fund the ISI's terrorist
factories and back a regime which all but legalized the rape of women.
Allah did not send thousands of aircraft to bomb Serbian civilians until
they finally gave in and signed on to the Muslim rape of Kosovo. Nor did
Allah's tanks protect Mecca and more importantly Ridyah from coming under
the jurisdiction of Uday and Qusay Hussein.

Finally America
provided a hospitable home for Muslim immigrants, giving them profitable
employment, letting them bring along their entire clans and not asking too
many questions about the money they sent to "charities" back home. And for
all this, we were repaid with 3000 dead in a single day. Nor for this
alone, but also because we had helped liberate Afghanistan and protect
Saudi Arabia. For all the countless billions spent and the lives lost
protecting Muslims, for being an open people willing to take in the
stranger and ask no questions, four of our planes were hijacked (a feat
previously held by Arafat's goons, who had already received a state from
us) and aimed at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House.

And afterward did Americans react by
going out and beating random Muslims or rounding them up in stadiums... as
leftist feverish fantasies would have it? No. Instead America embraced
Muslims as never before. We fought two wars, the bulk of which we spent
trying to rebuild infrastructure, put up generators and supply food, water
and medicine to two hostile Muslim countries. We taught tolerance to each
other until it was coming out of our ears. We reassured ourselves that
every religion has a few or a few hundred million bad apples. We made a
point of getting to know a local Muslim family. And of course we assured
them that we didn't hold it against them.

Just as we're doing right
now. Over and over again. When a Muslim screaming Allah Akbar opens fire,
we assure ourselves that most Muslims are good people. By contrast when a
Muslim gets a flat tire, he blames the CIA. Despite everything that
America has done for Muslims-- our only reward has been hatred and
ingratitude. Maybe instead of thinking of what America owes them, it's
time that Muslims everywhere thought about what they owe America.