My Errant Mind

Once again a Bush administration has dropped the ball on a critical issue in the Middle East despite its claims that the War on Terror is sooooooooo ever-loving important. We have a US backed government in Lebanon that found itself being overrun by Hezbollah—a terrorist organization—and we sat by doing absolutely nothing worthwhile. Why?

Here was a perfect opportunity to build support and target Hezbollah and their allies, a perfect opportunity to confront terrorism…and we do nothing aside from some feeble diplomatic whining? I can think of any number of strategies that would be better than the do nothing approach of the Bush administration.

I’m sure the administration is just waiting on some buzzword-filled strategy dreamed up by some think-tank employee taking a crap (which, ironically, is what any such strategy usually ends up being) or another moron Secretary of Defense.

I’ve been a bit busy the past few days but wanted to update with some things that have been on my mind lately.

1. Blogging is good group therapy. No really, it’s apparently true!

2. More jack-booted police thuggery. The excuse the Philadelphia police are making for such behavior is a lot of crap and whining. 12 hour shifts and 3 officers shot in three years is your weak excuse for such behavior? Sorry, I’m not buying that.

Why do we need police then? Hell, if lynching and simply gunning down people (like the Bell case in New York) is the best we can expect from police, we don’t really need them at all. We the People can form our own mobs and do the same. Why waste money on law enforcement and government that keeps trampling on our liberties, abusing We the People, and creating for-profit jails and prisons that are only profiting a few individuals while creating the world’s largest incarcerated population?

If you can’t handle the stress, get the hell out and find a job your weak ass can handle. As I have been saying all along, there are an awful lot of police who want to play the tough-guy/badass role of soldier, but that cannot handle it. Contrast their whiny cop excuses with the reality soldiers are facing every day. 3 killed in 3 years? Get over yourselves already.

If it’s so rough, why not just let everyone go armed and disband all the police? You won’t hear me whining. I promise you, there would be far fewer criminals and we wouldn’t have to worry about MS-13 gang numbers on the increase.

3. Speaking of MS-13 gang numbers on the rise, The Atlantic really missed with this article by Matthew Quirk. It isn’t America’s policy that is causing anything. It’s the lack of effort, control, and ineffectual government by Central American nations and the complicity of Mexico and its government in criminal endeavors and the invasion of America that are at fault.

The author seems to suggest that we shouldn’t bother trying to control our borders or deporting drains on our society. Rather, we should give them room and board at American taxpayer expense.

Here’s an idea. How about we solve America’s unemployment problem by giving every unemployed American a job and a gun—and stationing them on the border? I bet you would see the fastest decrease in the size of MS-13, the fastest reduction of narcotics traffic, the quickest reduction in unemployment, the quickest boost to the American economy, and the most secure border in our history. Alas, nothing that makes sense or is practical is ever done in America.

We might offend all those MS-13 gang members, drug traffickers, terrorists, sex offenders and other illegal aliens who aren’t American citizens.

4. Middle Eastern armies are largely worthless and have been for centuries. They can’t fight major or pitched battles worth a damn—with the sole exception of Israel of course. They’re pretty good in the terrorist department, though.

Give them some explosives, some handy women and children and they will give you fits.

Someone explain to me the point of having an Army that does nothing, as the Lebanese army seems to do so well? The Lebanese army warned its unity was in jeopardy if the crisis that nation is in is not averted.

What unity is that? The unified we’re too scared to fight sort of unity? Or is it the we only fight Israelis sort of unity? Perhaps it is the we Muslim armies only wage war on infidels sort of unity?

If I were going to war and had to choose between taking a brigade from the Lebanese army and a truckload of armed Somalis, I would instead take Bobcat Goldthwait in his suggested VW beetle with a few bottles of MadDog.

We would kick so much more ass.

Dutch MP Geert Wilders will soon be releasing a film about Islam that has NATO worrying about repercussions. You may recall that Net access was blocked in Pakistan recently because of a video with Mr. Wilders appearing on YouTube talking about the film?

Currently, NATO is concerned about how the upcoming release of the film will impact relations with Islamic nations. The Dutch government has also issued a heightened terrorism alert in anticipation of peaceful Islamic reaction. In Afghanistan, protesters are already calling for the government to expel Dutch and Danish troops and cut ties with those countries.

I for one am glad to see Mr. Wilders going forward with his plans. These days, Islamists use terror and intimidation of all sorts to silence any criticism of Islam or Islamic nations or anything related to their culture. It’s nice to see that Western democracies haven’t lost their spine altogether and that freedom of speech is still possible in places. Who would have thought you needed to be brave to be a cartoonist, after all?

Sadly, here in America, it is getting more difficult to criticize our own government or Islam. Laws passed under the guise of ‘hate crime’ and ‘domestic terror’ legislation are making it increasingly likely that being critical of the establishment in general and of those nations which our government considers allies—or critical to some political goal.

Really, all those anti-war protesters who want US troops to come home have to do is start posting cartoons of Muhammad daily. Soon, the furor will be such that all foreign troops will leave the Middle East. What a tragic pity that the solution is so easy and simple, yet the anti-war protesters would hypocritically rather let wars continue to be fought than offend the Islamic masses.

War is bad, terrible and killing should stop, the anti-war protesters cry! Unless, of course it would offend someone and upset them because it offended their peaceful belief in stoning and beheading. For the anti-war establishment, it’s much more acceptable to let a war continue and not offend people than it is to hurt someone’s feelings and save lives. As I’ve mentioned before, you never see anti-war protesters doing anything proactive between wars. These creatures only come out when it is convenient and they need to feel good about themselves.

Real peace activists don’t wait for the wars to begin to take action.

Sorry for the side trip, but back to the upcoming film release by Mr. Wilders. I wish him a safe life. The world needs more people willing to stand up to bullies—no matter what ideology they hide behind, and no matter what spineless governments are in bed with them.

The world is well aware of the brutality perpetrated by virtually every religion out there, and yet it is somehow a bad thing to point it out about Islam. Why is this? As the modern world well knows, you don’t want to upset those selling you the oil you need to grease the wheels of civilization.

But really, what’s the point of being civilized and having a government if you’re going to allow barbarians from far away lands to dictate what you can and can’t do in your own country?

I receive a lot of spam, both in WordPress comments and in email (though Akismet is improving and catching more of it). Just today, someone proudly proclaiming his Middle Eastern name tried filling my email with spam. It of course all just went to the junk folder and I had a good laugh at it. Most of the spam I get these days originates from IP addresses in the Middle East…more gifts from those peace-loving sorts I suppose. It’s hilarious how most of it is porn related spam. I guess there are a lot of Muslim men out there that really regret making their women cover up or something.

For those who think I only pick on Islam, you’re wrong.

As soon as I hear of Christians or Buddhists walking into Muslim communities and blowing themselves up I’ll take them to task just the same. As soon as I see or hear priests in the Vatican or the Native American Church calling for the extermination of a nation and its people, I’ll take them to task. As soon as native people living in the jungle along the Amazon start roadside bombings I will take them to task as well. As soon as I hear Taoists, Wiccans and members of The Hip Hop Church are stoning and beheading people, I’ll take them to task. As soon as I hear Jews and Atheists refusing to allow women to attend school, I’ll take them to task. As soon as Scientologists…wait…everyone already knows they’re creepy and strange, right?

In the mean time, since Hamas is still praising things like gunmen walking into schools and shooting civilians, it is no wonder that humanitarian conditions in Gaza are at a 40 year low.

Maybe if they had spent more time building a society than they spent building bombs and tunnels over the past 40 years, the Palestinians would have had a thriving nation by now? But why do all that hard work when you can riot, burn flags and cars, get angry at everyone in the world except your countrymen and your own leaders, and scream for heads over a cartoon, right?

Or, optionally, you can spend your time withdrawing from book fairs, accusing Israel of crimes against humanity…all the while hypocritically ignoring genocide in Darfur by Sudan’s peaceful Islamic government, right?