ALLAWI BEHAVES IN AN OLD AND RESPECTED TRADITION

The oh so shocking tale of Allawi personally executing prisoners with his own pistol, is an event liberals will start sobbing their asses off by late this afternoon. Executions are par for the course in that part of the world. What we are seeing is the "classic" power-challenge dialectic being played out for all Iraqis to see. It is a rich tradition going back forever. Once you take over, you get rid of all challengers. Then you get rid of people who look like challengers. You keep doing this til either a challenger sneaks through or you die an easy death with a few bitches around to suck your last will and testiment. See my post below about the brief history (since 1945+) of the power-challenge dialectic in that part of the world. Once you take the step to power you do whatever it takes to stay there or you lose respect. If you lose respect you lose honor. Which means you are shamed. His moves, starting with the personal execution of terrorists, will be respected far and wide; "shit, the m****er f**er killed them (fill in the blank) personally."

Everyone except Kerry HQ, the New York and LA Times, the media, and Academia, where personal anguish for innocent terrorists will cause moral floggings. The most mpressed will be our Mr. Saddr who will realize that he is next unless he kills Allawi first. The "rich" tradition of the power-challenge dialectic is that when you see youhave a pair of deuces against three kings showing, you go into exile. Fast. Failure to do this results in almost instant accidental death by mysterious forces.

AsI mentioned in previous posts, Saddr lacked the one classic ingredient for a takeover in that part of the world: he didn't have the army on his side. Allawi is old school. Best is that the awful USA ain't gunna be blamed for it except by our gutless left. The only way Alawi retains power and respect is to let everyone
know what he will do if crossed.

Allawi is doing the classic takeover. First, he has the Army, this time it's the U.S. Army which insulates him from any challenge. Then he will have his private
militia, the Iraqi police and army to enforce what he does. He will isolate and kill all opposition. He will take over.

What happens after that? Tradition says he becomes the strongman. He may institute democratic reforms, sort of. This is exactly what Mr. Ledeen and Mr. Pipes have been telling us for a long time. The guru of all writers on things Muslim and mysterious, Bernard Lewis, states very clearly that force is the only thing that can work in the Middle East.

Now we have it. Is this a step toward democracy?. It's a step to a strong man government first, the only thing Arabs are used to and will respect. And I think it is the best we can hope for. Watch all the media scream. Daniel Pipes caught this back on the 8th of July as he saw Allawi at work. I missed his post but you can catch it here with all the updates. You and I are watching textbook Arab politics.