Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and … - Yaroslav Trofimov

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Yaroslav Trofimov

Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.

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Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as. . . as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us. . . I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

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What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything.

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Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.

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So our own actions sometimes have undermined our safety, in our efforts to fight terrorism. The only way this can work is if we are aligned with liberals, with moderate Muslim forces. But if our war on terrorism is seen - as it is seen by many Muslims - as a war on Islam itself, it's very hard for us to have Muslim alliances, because America and the West have become so toxic.

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Long before 9
11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in. . . I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.

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