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Originally Posted by adaher
But, we found him in a spider hole, in Iraq. He looks like a hero to them.
Er, I fail to see how. I won't claim to be an expert on Arab culture, but I do recall many Arabs expressing disgust that this man, even though armed, allowed himself to be taken alive.
I also fail to see how anyone can be impressed with how he slaughtered whole villages in the most gruesome manner imaginable.
I'm sure that him doing the Sieg Heil thing and saying "Long Live the Arab state!" also won't endear him to the 20% of Iraq that isn't Arab. Imagine if Bush said, "Long live the white state!"
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How many people from the Middle East do you know personally?
Saddam can afford to get beaten up by Americans. Iraqis and others in the Middle East take that as a given. America is seen as the great superpower. They assume they're going to be beaten militarily. That's why they are fighting in an asymetrical way. It's the way they can fight.
Your mistake is in viewing the people of Iraq and the Middle East as a monolith.