The article says it all. “Blackmailing people into accepting food from the hands of invading soldiers, or starving to death”.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - The United States and Britain may be winning over hungry and thirsty people in southern Iraq, but they appear to be losing hearts and minds in other parts of the Middle East among Arabs angered at the war on Iraq.
Fury - not food - is fuelling the response of many Arabs to the U.S.-led war on Iraq which is now in its third week.
“There is a heart!” exclaims a Western soldier, pointing to a disembodied organ on a battlefield strewn with body parts and corpses in a cartoon in al-Dustour newspaper. “There is a mind!” says another soldier, pointing to a piece of brain.
The “Battle to Win Iraqi Hearts and Minds” cartoon, translated into Arabic from an original by Australia-based artist Nik Scott, conveys the cynicism and anger many Arabs feel about the effects of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, commentators say.
The United States and Britain say the war launched on March 20 is intended to free Iraqis from Saddam Hussein’s rule. Even as tanks and troops swept into Baghdad, forces are remaining behind in the south keen to drive that point home with aid.
But many Arabs even in countries which are close allies of the United States and Britain are up in arms over Iraqi civilian casualties, the thousands of missiles that have bombarded Baghdad, and mistrust over the stated reasons for the war.
Some have called for an end to U.S. and British military presence in Gulf states such as Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Others want boycotts of American and British products.
Anti-western sentiments are often completely unsolicited, even in Jordan, an ally of Washington.
“Viva Iraq!” shouts an Arab man from his car window at a group of Western reporters in a cafe in Amman. “Go to hell!” a man shouts at a Western woman on the street. “Don’t tell people you are American!” warns a taxi driver.
“Nobody should buy American products any more,” says a ladies’ apparel shop owner, when asked by two American women if there was a Nine West shoe store in Amman.
“The anger is very, very deep,” said a Western-educated upper class Jordanian woman, who declined to be named.
BOYCOTTS AND BLACKMAIL
The United States and Britain also say they chose the military option to disarm Iraq after accusing it of failing to fully cooperate with United Nations weapons inspections.
“The Arab people are very angry, frustrated and agitated because (they) chose war as the way to deal with Iraq…” Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told the United Arab Emirates al-Khaleej newspaper in remarks published on Saturday.
Jordanian political commentator Uraib Rantawi said Arab attitudes have changed "for the worse. Anti-Americanism has increased by seeing checkpoints and civilian casualties in Iraq.
“If they (United States and Britain) want to keep their long-term interests and partnerships in the Middle East, they cannot export democracy by Apache helicopter. It will all depend on public opinion at the end of the day.”
From street protests to mosques to markets, the public opinion of which Rantawi speaks is so far not promising.
“There’s nothing to rejoice when Saddam is removed because the U.S. is going to install a puppet government in Baghdad to serve its interests. We won’t see peace as they promise but a new wave of violence,” said Suleiman Ahmed, a teacher in Oman.
Abdul-Latif Janahi, a banker in Bahrain, said he thinks the war “is aiming at controlling its (Iraq’s) oil resources.”
The reaction could turn violent. Lebanese security forces found a car packed with explosives outside a McDonald’s restaurant on the edge of Beirut on the weekend, judicial sources said, the latest in attacks on U.S. and British targets.
Saudi businessmen say sales of McDonald’s in particular have been hit and that a boycott of American products initially inspired by the Palestinian independence uprising had died down but then gained fresh momentum with the war on Iraq.
“It will take a long time for this burning hatred to die down,” said Abdul-Rahman al-Zamil, a member of the kingdom’s advisory Shura Council and chairman of the Zamil conglomerate.
“I will continue to do business with American corporations but there is a growing boycott at the grassroots level. Our children are telling us not to go to McDonald’s and our wives are boycotting American products,” he said.
**Rantawi suggested the closeness of southern Iraqis to the soldiers was opportunistic. “I think with water and food they can win their stomachs, but not their hearts and minds.”
A recent Jordan Times editorial echoed the idea that loyalty can easily be bought among those who are hungry.
“Washington’s war to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqis” was “Blackmailing people into accepting food from the hands of invading soldiers, or starving to death.” **
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's. I don’t believe that is what is taught at terror training camps.