Fox News Insults Iraqis
Reported by Judy - May 25, 2005
They didn't flush the Quoran down the toilet, but Fox News personalities Wednesday (May 25) did their best to insult America's allies in the fight against insurgents in Iraq.
Sitting in for the clueless John Gibson, Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed Fox News military analyst Bill Cowan, a retired lieutenant colonel in the marines.
Discussing the possibility of eventually capturing terrorist leader al-Zarqawi, Napolitano mentioned the $25 million reward being offered for information leading to his apprehension. "Isn't that enough to shake loose some information about where he might be?" the judge asked.
"You'd think so," said Cowan, "but probably a lot of these people that are thinking about $25 million have no idea what that amount of money really is. We always kid around that what we ought to be offering is a couple goats and a brand new Toyota Land Cruiser and we'd probably have a lot more response to it."
In other words, according to Cowan, Iraqis are so dumb and backward, they don't understand modern concepts like money and can only relate to primitive things like goats and sheep. How insulting!
If such an attitude is common among military brass, it may well filter down to the troops in the street, who are charged with getting local Iraqis to cooperate with them in finding insurgents. What Iraqi is going to risk his life to help out an American who treats him or her like a backward peasant. The Ugly American still lives.
