The Invisible Fulcrum Between The Twin Towers

by Dave L

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-04-04 09:34:00

The Taliban thugs have been beaten in their own town squares and banished to the mountains. Their patrons, and benefactors, and political allies and counterparts are being swept into a pile of dust.

Good.

Crashing down those twin towers was what finally got them in trouble. Goes to show how much evil you can wield without getting into trouble. Rounding up civilians and executing them on a routine basis, or beating women to death on the street or in the soccer stadium as an everyday occurence – those are okay in this world. Who but a small silent moral minority opposed it? In this idea of a peaceful world, the key is to look the other way when evil men do evil things. To line up with them and accuse good men of their evil crimes in order to hide their evil in the swirl of confusion.

We have seen it before.

In such a world, it is opposing evil that will get you into trouble. Taliban hate crimes were actively ignored. Gruesome public executions were the norm. Bulldozing a mud wall onto people while they are alive, cutting off hands, bashing in skulls. All in the name of Islam. That was okay. Sexual apartheid. That was acceptable. Relegating women to the lowest tiers of society. That was tolerable in the name of cultural diversity. It was only when they blew up those ancient Bamiyan Buddhas that they began to get a little air time on CNN. Of course when they blew up the U.S.S. Cole that kicked them up to page one for an instant.

They got greedy with their evil. They blew up the WTC in NYC when a Texan was the president. Now boy, they done gone too far now. The retaliation was to be not only against the Taliban Islamist KKK, but their patrons and political benefactors and alliances and the rest of the evil thugs that for so long had free reign.

They might have kept themselves happy just doing the limited evil that liberals love to embrace as “normal.” But they went too far.

After the U.S. marines are through cleaning up Iraq, then maybe they can head into Iran, and North Korea, and Syria and any other evil axis candidate that has the audacity to call itself a state.

So far it has only cost the U.S. 16 casualties and 33 natural or accidental deaths. This the price we have paid in human life for a chance at a civilized Middle East. Hell the Taliban bashed in 16 skulls before lunch most days.

Maybe when all the sandstorm dust settles some ecologists can get busy planting some trees back into the former lush gardens between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Maybe when we get through, Israel will be surrounded by people living happy lives instead of barbarians being jerked around by “religious” mad men.

Maybe that little sliver of Israel can finally get busy enjoying freedom and prosperity and the simple pleasure of taking a bus downtown to a cafe without getting blown up by a suicidal fool under the spell of a homicidal fool.

Good. For Israel, five thousand years of suffering are enough already. Let her be free, and with her, the rest of the world be at peace.

It is long overdue.



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