What an idiotic question.
According to an an article I read today, many Iraqis believe Abu Musab al-Zarqawi doesn’t exist. Americans made him up. Of course we did.
I don’t know why human beings delightfully and willfully embrace ignorance and bad memes over and over, but they do. It’s almost viral.
The real challenge here in Iraq, and yes, in America too, is educating people so that they question and investigate for themselves. The United States certainly didn’t make up Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. We didn’t make up Osama bin Laden. We didn’t fly remote controlled planes into the Pentagon or blow up the World Trade Center.
The Coalition kills bad guys, mostly. We build schools, provide medical care and fix things that are broken. Sometimes we’re inefficient. Sometimes bad people with few redeeming qualities get put in positions where they can abuse their authority. They usually get punished.
To the ignorant and the blind out there on the other side of the blast walls from me with all your conspiracy theories and your complaining, most of us are doing our best to help your country. So don’t waste time in idle chatter. You can help us or work against us. When you do the latter, you’re only making the process longer and more painful for everyone involved.
Monsters are real and Al-Zarqawi is one of them.