Friday, October 17, 2003
Par for the course in Gaza, right?
Three Americans killed by someone filled to the brim with Palestinian Authority bile. The Friday evening TV broadcasts are full of calls for immediate death to any Jew or American any Arab might meet. Someone just took the TV to heart.
Not that TV causes violence, mind you.
And why were the Americans there? Why, to hand out scholarships, so Arabs can come to America and study. Boeing 757 flight dynamics, or somesuch, I'm sure.
I sometimes wonder about our State Department. It seems populated by people who believe that the world is completely full of rational, even if misunderstood, people. All it'll take is just a little exposure, a little understanding, and we can all, in the timeless words of Rodney King "get along.".
Well, guess what! The world is full of irrational people who live lives of quiet desperation, waiting for the moment when they can strut and fret about a stage. They want to make a splash and, lets face it, right now killing Americans is the way to make a splash.
Egged on my the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation, with help from Al Jazeera on the Seine, the Clinton News Network, and National Proletarian Radio, the misguided are being convinced that if they can kill enough Americans, then we'll just go home. When the various media outlets liken Iraq to Vietnam, they're calling up a whole slew of images, ending in American humiliation and defeat. And al Qaeda can't get enough of it!
But they just don't get it. The Vietnamese never crashed airplanes into American skyscrapers and the Vietnamese had an endless supply of people and arms. Ho Chi Minh was willing to fight to the last NVA soldier (and Bill Clinton was happy to be photographed in front of Ho's tomb, but that's a rant for another time) and the last Russian bullet. And he had a country from which to operate, ceded him by that human stain, Robert McNamara.
Saddam has a shrinking power base, his friends have left him (as recently as this year, but they've left him); Boy Assad clearly has the news that he'd better butt out or end up slowly decomposing in a refrigerated tent; the Europeans, faced with the prospect of Iranian nuclear ICBMs, are starting to stir from their dogmatic slumbers; the Saudis are even holding elections. Mirablie visu!
In other words, the American liberation of Iraq is already having a positive effect on this demonstrably psychotic part of the world. Vietnam it is not. The question now is whether Americans can stick it out. The Washington Press Corps is relentlessly negative, and the Arabs are happy to kill an American here, an American there, as they find them. There's a strong isolationist tendency in the American psyche, an inclination to say "Ah, screw 'em all," and let the word go hang itself, and the press and the Arabs are counting on that.
Why?
Well, the Washington Press Corps wants this because if we walk away from Iraq, Bush's goose is cooked: he'll not be re-elected, and we'll probably have that their favorite proto-Stalinist, Hillary, as the next President. The Islamofascists want this because it'll get the U.S. out of the way long enough for some holy warrior or other to get his hands on an Islamic Bomb or two and complete the work that came out in the open on 9/11/2001.
I guess where I am on this is that the Arabs have been driven psychotic by years of anti-American, anti-semitic propaganda. Coupled with this, they're told that in Islam they have the perfect religion and the perfect way of governing, yet they live lives of oppression and squalor. The Americans must be in league with Satan! There must be a Jewish plot to keep Arabs down! How else explain conditions? People in such straits will act out. In this situation, Americans are wise to back away, keeping a close eye out for guns, knives, or bombs, and hold these people at a safe distance while working to improve local conditions and thereby relieve the delerium to the point where the locals aren't cheering mass murder or the beheading of journalists.
In other words, get out of Gaza, and start giving the scholarships it Iraqis. As their country becomes rich, stable, peaceful, secular, and free, the people elsewhere will start paying less attention to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" from Egyptian TV, and more attention to "Baywatch" from Iraqi TV.
Osama, meanwhile, will be nothing but a lanky sociopath in yak wool underwear, holed up with Sasquatch, Elvis, and Saddam.
Three Americans killed by someone filled to the brim with Palestinian Authority bile. The Friday evening TV broadcasts are full of calls for immediate death to any Jew or American any Arab might meet. Someone just took the TV to heart.
Not that TV causes violence, mind you.
And why were the Americans there? Why, to hand out scholarships, so Arabs can come to America and study. Boeing 757 flight dynamics, or somesuch, I'm sure.
I sometimes wonder about our State Department. It seems populated by people who believe that the world is completely full of rational, even if misunderstood, people. All it'll take is just a little exposure, a little understanding, and we can all, in the timeless words of Rodney King "get along.".
Well, guess what! The world is full of irrational people who live lives of quiet desperation, waiting for the moment when they can strut and fret about a stage. They want to make a splash and, lets face it, right now killing Americans is the way to make a splash.
Egged on my the Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation, with help from Al Jazeera on the Seine, the Clinton News Network, and National Proletarian Radio, the misguided are being convinced that if they can kill enough Americans, then we'll just go home. When the various media outlets liken Iraq to Vietnam, they're calling up a whole slew of images, ending in American humiliation and defeat. And al Qaeda can't get enough of it!
But they just don't get it. The Vietnamese never crashed airplanes into American skyscrapers and the Vietnamese had an endless supply of people and arms. Ho Chi Minh was willing to fight to the last NVA soldier (and Bill Clinton was happy to be photographed in front of Ho's tomb, but that's a rant for another time) and the last Russian bullet. And he had a country from which to operate, ceded him by that human stain, Robert McNamara.
Saddam has a shrinking power base, his friends have left him (as recently as this year, but they've left him); Boy Assad clearly has the news that he'd better butt out or end up slowly decomposing in a refrigerated tent; the Europeans, faced with the prospect of Iranian nuclear ICBMs, are starting to stir from their dogmatic slumbers; the Saudis are even holding elections. Mirablie visu!
In other words, the American liberation of Iraq is already having a positive effect on this demonstrably psychotic part of the world. Vietnam it is not. The question now is whether Americans can stick it out. The Washington Press Corps is relentlessly negative, and the Arabs are happy to kill an American here, an American there, as they find them. There's a strong isolationist tendency in the American psyche, an inclination to say "Ah, screw 'em all," and let the word go hang itself, and the press and the Arabs are counting on that.
Why?
Well, the Washington Press Corps wants this because if we walk away from Iraq, Bush's goose is cooked: he'll not be re-elected, and we'll probably have that their favorite proto-Stalinist, Hillary, as the next President. The Islamofascists want this because it'll get the U.S. out of the way long enough for some holy warrior or other to get his hands on an Islamic Bomb or two and complete the work that came out in the open on 9/11/2001.
I guess where I am on this is that the Arabs have been driven psychotic by years of anti-American, anti-semitic propaganda. Coupled with this, they're told that in Islam they have the perfect religion and the perfect way of governing, yet they live lives of oppression and squalor. The Americans must be in league with Satan! There must be a Jewish plot to keep Arabs down! How else explain conditions? People in such straits will act out. In this situation, Americans are wise to back away, keeping a close eye out for guns, knives, or bombs, and hold these people at a safe distance while working to improve local conditions and thereby relieve the delerium to the point where the locals aren't cheering mass murder or the beheading of journalists.
In other words, get out of Gaza, and start giving the scholarships it Iraqis. As their country becomes rich, stable, peaceful, secular, and free, the people elsewhere will start paying less attention to the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" from Egyptian TV, and more attention to "Baywatch" from Iraqi TV.
Osama, meanwhile, will be nothing but a lanky sociopath in yak wool underwear, holed up with Sasquatch, Elvis, and Saddam.
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