Drones, Bombs, and Desecration: How Do Middle Easterners See This?

How do you think the media in the Middle East is covering these recent events?


1. US drone captured in Iran
2. Iranian nuclear scientist killed in a car bomb (they're calling it a US/Israel attack)
3. US troops urinating on Taliban corpses


I would guess the coverage isn't pro-US. I can also imagine seeing these reports as a Middle Easterner—and feeling some resentment about US intervention.


Here is one reason the world would be better served by a smaller US government: If we weren't intervening in their lands, their media would have a lot less to rile their audience with. In fact, if we were to cut back our military presence, end our sanctions, and trade more openly, then people in the Middle East may eventually have reason to believe that our way of life really is admirable. They might emulate us.


Yet, for wanting to end the wars in the Middle East and return the US military budget to the size it was in 2006, Ron Paul is being labeled as dangerous by his Republican contenders.


I don't see it. Here's what he says,

"Americans have the right to defend themselves against attack; that is not at issue. But that is very different from launching a preemptive war against a country that had not attacked us and could not attack us, that lacked a navy and an air force, and whose military budget was a fraction of a percent of our own." - The Revolution: A Manifesto

Paul is mostly asking Americans to see the issue from the perspective of those we attack. He's asking us to put ourselves in the position of a Middle Easterner watching reports about a lost US drone, a car bomb, and US troops being soulless. From that perspective, it's harder to defend current foreign policy.