Report: No yearning for freedom in Mideast

[hadrons]

Report: No yearning for freedom in Mideast

WASHINGTON, April 3 (UPI) -- A study prepared by a panel advising the Defense Department says that Muslims do not yearn to be liberated by the United States.

Middle East Newsline, a service covering the Arab world and American policy there, reports that the Defense Science Board concludes that "Muslims in dictatorial regimes" do not have the same goals as and should not be compared to the citizens of former Soviet-bloc countries in eastern Europe.

"There is no yearning-to-be-liberated-by-the-U.S. groundswell among Muslim societies -- except to be liberated perhaps from what they see as apostate tyrannies that the U.S. so determinedly promotes and defends," the 102-page report said…

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/04030000aaa020a2.upi&Sys=rmmiller&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News

They yearn to be free ... just not the neo-cons idea of "freedom"

[mr_hat]

1. Then they simply haven't been bombed sufficiently.

[Demit]

2. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Igel]

3. So the link's a report citing reporting on a report.

The reports--you know, the actual sources cited in both the report reported on and the report doing the reporting--are here:

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports.htm

The principle report being reported on both in the original reporting report as well as the reported-on report is "Strategic Communication." The main quote-like citations come from p. 35-36 (reported by Adobe Reader as page 43-44).