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The utter nonsense of the Iraq strategy
Dick McDonald
The pure lunacy of the Iraq debate is only understood when one arrives at the understanding that the collective we in the West are not really a part of this mislabeled “War”. The war is being fought between many tribes of Islam that fall into the major categories of “Sunni” and “Shia” whose differences are equivalent to the differences between the Methodists and the Baptists; totally and utterly insignificantly absurd except to a culture that is repressive and barbaric and living in a savage pre-enlightenment era.
Yet here in the West we are so arrogant we think that we matter. We have endless debates on TV about how important we are. We have elections where our strategy is determinative of the party we choose. Even the magician Rumsfeld who orchestrated two of the cleanest and shortest wars on record is departing in shame with a memo on what WE should do now about something we have little or no control over.
These Muslim fanatics have been murdering each other for centuries. They only become partners when fighting a perceived common enemy of their Islamic faith. An enemy Mohammed defined as anybody but Muslims. Now look in the mirror to check if you are wearing a burka or have a beard. If not you are their enemy.
We must bow to the power of perception and construct that Mohammed understood so well. He made a political structure that had multiple entrances and NO exits. No exits except death. He then superimposed the supernatural, a belief in one supreme God, and made everyone beholden to his 7th Century understanding of politics, religion and sociology in the Koran and the Hadith. There is no better conceived power structure on Earth; many entrances and no exits all governed by an immutable law administered from on high by unimpeachable spirits.
Islam has condoned the murder of other Muslims for perceived failures to follow Mohammed’s instructions. It happens at intervals where the tribes are not banding together to fight and conquer the infidels. It happens today when they can be pitted against each other to create the chaos that is Baghdad. It is not as serious as it seems. It only becomes serious when they band together to fight us and there are darker shadows looming in the background..
The Iraq war we so dearly covet is but a microcosm of the bigger war that Mohammed’s supplicants are waging against us non-believers. Mohammed injected their psyches with an evangelical imperative; convert the non-believer into a believer. He made that an order that Islam has sporadically been obeying in its 14 century march toward their caliphate. As his instructions in the Koran are conversion by any means possible, death has been an instrument of conversion by intimidation from the start. Thus Mohammed created a vengeful God who condones the murder of women and children as an integral part of his power modality.
As so the talking nonsense goes on. As if we are going to end this war with war. It is much deeper than that; much deeper than confrontation, much deeper than containment, much deeper than appeasement, much deeper than surrender, much deeper than tactics. We are dealing with man’s most basic belief; survival. Is God merciful or vengeful? Does he celebrate life or venerate death? Only one force on Earth can effect the change necessary to bring an end to this nonsensical conflict. It is the force that demands truth at any cost and extracts its vengeance by shaming the evil doer to change their ways.
That force is the American media. Unfortunately they are controlled by a political party that has no working relationship with the truth. Let’s face it if the left gets threatened, all hell will break loose. Right now they are in the business of supporting hell content in the moral relativism of it all; content that radical Islam is a false threat. That will be the case until Muslims incinerate a major city and our response turns the sands of the Middle East into a desert of glass. The immense power of the light the media can shine on this problem remains dimmed. It is just too tragic for words.
Dick McDonald can be found at The Right Scale
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 11 December 2006