I celebrate, laud, remark upon the milestone of Zarqawi's death without scourging Islam. Islam is in crisis today. Islam has a problem, a real problem.
PC correct reporting on international news outlets does not help this.
...I believe it's possible to worship as your heart tells you, without having to murder your neighbor. Yes, modern Islam is in crisis. No, I don't want to condemn all Muslims; as a point of settlement of peace on earth we cannot go to our brothers in the Middle East and say: "You are all going to Hell, my religion is better than yours."
If Iraq makes it, all you Leftist mamby pambi cry babies will have seen an historical intervention that determined the future of Mankind, and you were on the wrong side of history. If Iraq only sorta-kinda makes it, it will still be a tremendous milestone for a people living under a Big Rock. Yeah, you oughta call it that, say, 'I Rock', for "I got out from under the rock", of oppression and ignorance. Somehow the idea that things are supposed to happen quick, easy and neat got floated out there as if that was an accurate depiction of world events. It never has been. Democracy was sloppily introduced into a chaotic nerve nexus of the geo-political Earth. It wasn't pretty. It didn't always look good. You could always whine it was failing with every roadside bomb. But the alternative, to leave it 'all alone,' (and they'll come Home, wagging their tails behind them.) do nothing, hope for the best while the Cancer was getting bigger and bigger and the pus sores of rebellion breaking out across the globe were filling, would have been a catastrophy. No, it's not fair. We didn't treat Iraq fair. Nothing is fair. It didn't quite look good.
But it damn well was the right thing to do during the time of the Whirlwind. And people get focused on the little things in front of their faces and forget the big picture. You want your kids to have babies and some reasonable belief in safety and progress? It's easy to look back on the actions of Lincoln or Jefferson and see how clear it all was, when they fought the good fight; but it's not always clear when it's happening in reality, sometimes it's scary, and dark, and it has twisted passages and the crowd (and international press) can jeer at you from the sidelines. In a time when the World was taking tiny baby steps of self awareness, realizing there was a 'we', and all nations were interlinked, and the actions of neighbors and brothers did impact a relative country on the other side of the world, in a time where you were afraid to say what was good or bad because you did not wish to offend all these new found friends across the globe, a little pipsqueak named George Bush was couragious enough to act.
There was a candy store of WMD and Terrorist network building and supply chain possiblities in a post 9-11 world, Iraq, and the West as we know it, could not take the reasonable risk that if unchecked a nuke or biological agent thrown at London or New York would not bring us all down, all the new found neighbors with different values. And you can hate George Bush for that, But History will be Kinder. It will see a flash of meat, of sinew, grit and muscle in a world largely terrified of it's own shadow, and happily living on French new age, Old Europe Baloney.
Baloney or spam. That all mixed together crap, where nothing is known and everything is all the same; it all tastes the same.
Well, it's not all the same. When the Twin Towers fell we saw a new world. We entered a world where a few fools with relatively little expenditure might be able to topple the industrial machine's movement. In a Day. And when That Baby stops, it's not Wall street that yells the loudest; its the Third World who can't afford goods that starves first.
And some people get this, and many do not. The world is not what is was when I was a boy. It has changed. Men have changed. This is a challenge for the Ages.
If we survive this, maybe our DNA is worth something after all. Worth more than putting a MC Donald's on the Moon.
I sure hope so.
Whatever else Bush is, or is not, he got it. He figured it out. Frankly, I was worried he would not. Yes, that's right, you all scared me with your sneering about his sometimes less than stellar perceptiveness.....
End of Rant.
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