Meaghan Walker-Williams
Cowichan Beat
Oct 1, 2001
Taunting, Teasing and Jeering at the US - Makes Me Want to Puke.
I know that there are some people who are probably sick of the constant and unrelenting coverage and commentary of the Sept 11th Terrorist attack in the United States. It has dominated the news and our coffee-shop, or dinner time conversations for nearly 3 weeks and in some ways, like I pointed out last week there is nothing new to say about Death. It's been said, and is being said over and over and over again.
I do have a point to make though - before I leave this subject alone and carry on with the business of my usual flogging of various complaints about aspects of Canadian Government and Band Government abuses and deceptions.
If I hear one more idiot in the news or around town spew more of this ridiculous "apologist" blame-game nonesense about the victimization of America for it's foreign policies I think I will scream. Maybe growing up with a military father, I never had much of a chance to develop a Kumbaya, lets all hold hands and "touchy-feely each other's pain" approach to world study. I have always been non-plussed at the sight of retro-hippie-esque GenXers spewing stuff about Mao or Marx and tossing collectivst ideas about like they are some sort of party-favour.
"Are you people NUTS?" has been what I say to myself when I hear people my age wax poetic about the wonders of Stalinism and/or nihilism. They think they are so sophisticated, when in actual fact, they are simply silly and in these recent instances, dangerously so.
Make no mistake about it. The people who perpetrated this attack in North America are the absolute logical conclusion of that thread of political theory. In fact, from what I understand of the Taleban regime - they bear an eerie resemblance to Pol Pot and the Khemer Rouge. You tell me - those of you, that perhaps think I am out of line here.. Does executing 8 year old girls in sports stadiums, for the crime of attempting to learn how to read, filled with cheering Afghan citizens strike you as "innocent" and "reasonable" response to the so called "American Imperialism" and mistakes of Foreign policy. What about beating Afghan men to death with electrical cables for wearing "Western Haircuts".? I don't think so.
The ruling elite in Afghanistan bury women suspected of adultery up to their shoulders before stoning them to death. They kill suspected homosexuals by collapsing walls onto them. They have driven millions of desperate fellow Afghans into exile, and leave the remainder to face destitution and starvation. Their honored accomplice is Osama bin Laden, who for the last ten years or so has been telling everyone who will listen that the United States is the source of all wickedness and he intends to destroy it. In some ways, I would liken the ethical approach to "Foreign Policy" by bin Laden, as being similar to a doomed AIDS patient attempting to sleep with, infect and kill as many people as possible -to share their bitterness misery and pain with on the way out of shuffling this mortal coil. I would agree that it's been downright stupid for our government and the US governments attempt to prop up various regimes around the world. And indeed, now we know better, in the sense that you can bet your bottom dollar that some of the arsenals that will be used in defence of the Taleban, came direct from -and in fact in some cases was "made in the USA." Thats gonna hurt. Its probably going to hurt more, KNOWING that US Foreign AID and policy MADE this kind of defence of the Taleban easier for them - but America is a pretty straight forward lot. They will take their lumps over that and move on - and kick ass anyways. That's what's good about being the only true super-power left in the world.
So hear this, you GenXer Hippie nitwits!!!... There is only ONE language that the terrorist Al Queda and Taleban will understand at that point. That language is sheer unrelenting brute force and its destructive display in technicolor in-your-face surround sound demonstration. The message "If you kill people - you will be killed - full stop." Must be driven home.
We know for a fact that bin Laden managed to get as few as 15 young men from his Al Queda network to walk on board those airliners and blow themselves and the occupants of the WTC and the Pentagon to smithereens. When people have reached a point in their ideology that the only thing they want to do - is to hurt others, while they die - then diplomacy and "economic sanctions" and playing patty-cakes with the UN bunch is simply not going to cut it.
I would humbly suggest that we only KNOW of 15 such people in bin Laden's regime for sure. We don't know how many more terrorists are wandering around in North America with the same ideology and goals in mind and the possible means to carry them out.
You better believe that we are facing some dark times ahead. I am almost 85% convinced that when the US strikes back, as it must - there will be a retaliatory act by the remaining terrorists in North American and Europe, and it won't be pretty. In fact - for years now, according to reports from the BBC and defected Afghani scientists the Taleban has been purchasing the components for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons.
We already know that these mo'fos are willing to die to hurt as many people as possible to make their point. Its no small stretch of the imagination to consider that all bin Laden has to do is give the word to even just 20 of his followers on North American soil to infect themselves with small pox or some other genetically altered nasty and then walk around for the 10 days infecting everybody around them. We won't even know when we have been hit - until hundreds are dying in agony. And by then it will be too late. All the chanting and apologies and apathy in the world won't erase the consequences.
In light of that - which is actually the LEAST of our worries - anybody who proposes "All we are saying.. Is Give Peace a Chance" - is a damn fool, and I take it very personally when they are attempting to interfere with the proper course of Action by the US Military to wipe out the people who are responsible for the 9-11 attacks and the attacks to come.
If you can't stomach the sight of just and righteous revenge for the wanton destruction of thousands of innocent Americans - then Shut the hell up, and just get out of their way. Do you Actually need to be personally attacked, or be directly affected by the madness of bin Laden before you realize what your appeasment is making possible?
Well I don't. Whatever the American's must do to keep themselves and North America safe at this point - my support goes to them.
*** Meaghan Walker-Williams is an Aboriginal Canadian Journalist, single mother, Classical Liberal/Libertarian - who writes freeland for the National Post/Financial Post, the Cowichan Valley Citizen and Canadian Aboriginal News On-Line.