In London demonstrators are openly lamenting the death of bin Laden, and news accounts quote one Abu Muaz, 28, from east London, who seems, quite unabashedly and proudly, to be vowing a major terrorist reprisal: “It is only a matter of time before another atrocity — the West is the enemy.” Demonstrators chanted, “USA — you will pay!” How strange for so many to dislike the very culture and country they live in, when in the age of globalization it is so easy now to go elsewhere — such as to seek new residence under the aegis of the beloved Islamic world.
The current Pakistani demonstrations offer the same disconnects. As I understand their message — from interviews with irate, prominent Pakistanis, op-eds in newspapers, and videos from street demonstrations — it would run something like the following: (1) It’s none of your business that we have harbored a mass murderer of 3,000 Americans and the chief enemy of the United States for over five years in a suburb of our capital; (2) We deserve and have received tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid from America since 2002–3); and (3) We don’t like you or what you do very much.
I think it is time to move beyond the Pakistani “alliance”: quietly and without fanfare cut all aid, and wish them well as they seek out their own path without the United States.
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/266653/weird-sort-hate-victor-davis-hanson
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