"After 30 years of listening to nauseating chanting from Teheran to Islamabad to Nablus, hearing the childish rants about "The Mother of All Battles" and "The Great Satan," and witnessing presidents from Carter to Bush burned in effigy, the ritual torching of the American flag, the misspelled banners of hatred, the thousands of paint-by-the-numbers posters of psychopaths from Khomeini to bin Laden, televised threats that sound as hideous as they are empty, Nazi-inspired anti-Semitism, embassy takeovers, oil-boycotts, hijacked planes, cars, and ships, lectures from unelected obese sheiks with long names and gold chains, peacekeepers incinerated in their sleep, murders at the Olympics, bodies dumped on the tarmac of airports, shredded diplomats, madmen in sunglasses in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, demented mullahs and whip-bearing imams in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, continual televised murders of Americans abroad, our towers toppled, our citizens butchered, our planes blown up, hooded Klansmen in Hamas and Hezbollah, killers of al-this and Islamic-that, suicide bombers, shrill turbaned nuts spouting hatred on C-SPAN broadcasts, one day the salvation of Kuwait, the next sanctions against the swallower of Kuwait, the third day fury against the sanctions against the swallower of Kuwait, the fourth day some grievance from 1953, the fifth another from A.D. 752; and all the time sanctimonious fingerpointing from Middle Eastern academics and journalists who are as bold abroad in insulting us as they are timid and obsequious under dictators at home in keeping silent, I've about had it. No mas. The problem is you, not us — you, you, you…. "
The 1930s - early 1940s were only the dry run! This is the real McCoy!
So who's going to defeat VD?
Yes, I'm more than tired of these people. One the one hand there are those who would seek to profit from trade with those who are clearl your enemies. They think that the rules of cause and effect, of consequences - unintended and otherwise - simply don't apply to them, and that their money and influence can shield them from the outcomes of their choices. There are those who hate this country and everything it used to stand for. They hate and despise the very concept of freedom and free will. They're the ones who silently cheered on 09/11 and made smug pronouncements that we obviously deserved what we got.
Yes, I'm more than tired of these traitors to humanity. The cold hard truth is that giventhe current state of decay of the balance of powers that once held them in check, we're simply not going to be able to vote or debate our way out of what's coming our way this time around. Who's got the courage and intellectual honesty to think this though and call the road we're travelling and its ultimate destination by their proper names?
The truth is that there is a great storm on the horizon, one that will pass — or bring upon us a hard rain the likes of which we have not seen in 60 years. Either we shall say "no more," deal with Iraq, and prepare for a long and hard war against murderers and terrorists — or we will have more and more of what happened on 9/11. History teaches us that certain nations, certain peoples, and certain religions at peculiar periods in their history take a momentary, but deadly leave of their senses...
Recall the words of Norman Cohn, author of Warrant for Genocide:
"There exists a subterranean world, where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when that under-world emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people. And it occasionally happens that this subterranean world becomes a political power and changes the course of history."
Yes, there is indeed a storm on the way - a terrible one, if we read the signs with an unflinching understanding of history and human nature. That persistent knocking on our front doros is that of history telling us that everything, literally everything can change in a heartbeat. From the transformation of beautiful Sarajevo to a flame-shot hell of ruin and slaughter to the collapse of the old Soviet Empire, from the democide of the Khmer Rouge regime to the cultural genocide of the Taliban and the true believers of Islam, from the murderous midnight raids of BATF and FBI jack-booted killers to the impact of the airliners on the Pentagon and the WTC - genocide, murder, the destruction of your life and your family and your home and livelihood is just a matter of whim and caprice.
Now think about what it might take to turn this around - makes a mockery of what you see on the lamestream media outlets, doesn't it? Makes a mockery of what you hear coming from the mouths of our so-called 'leaders', doesn't it?
What it should make you realize is that, in the end, it all comes down to you and your willingness to fight for what you hold dear.
Don't look to your politicians for help. They're not listening and they don't care.
Don't look to the churches - they're nothing more than the dwelling place for the clergy of oppression, and demons dance on their empty altars.
Don't look to the schools and he institutes of higher learning - they've become founts of ignorance, lies and hatred of the truth, and they teach sheepery and passivity to our children.
All that's left is you...
Such a good article! The Arabic countries have only themselves to blame for living in the 14th century. Or is it the 12th?