Culture Shock - theirs and ours
In Lebanon, the H guys filled a building with women and children and shot rockets off the roof. When Isreal shot back, they killed the women and children, which gave the H guys a huge propaganda chip. What kind of people would be willing to do that, including the women and children willing to be blown to bits for the cause? Noted that few if any of the men hung around to get killed.
This is what Bushocracy is trying to cure in the Middle East. This is an important piece of the Muslum culture, (can't even choke out the word religion) dying for the cause. For the US to conquer the Middle East, would we would have to kill all of them, the men anyway?
Just as important as dying for the cause, or getting our side to kill them, is their side killing women and children for the cause, just for political gain. Doesn't matter whose women and children they kill, ours theirs, anyone's. They have no trouble killing their own people, Muslims killing Muslims. Or better, Muslims killing Jews. It happens here, too, like in Seattle. We are fighting a culture where life is meaningless and death is important.
Can we who fear death and love life, especially life's toys (like SUVs) co-exist with a culture who thinks we are as nuts as we think they are? And whose goal is to eliminate us, the infidels?
Our goal isn't to eliminate them. Or is it? Us pushing Bushocracy on them probably means the same to them. Which is worse?
Bushocracy is a term to cover the concept of a society where people elect their tyrants and whose tyrants try to prop up fake favorable governments in other countries with their own military. Baby Bush didn't invent it. We tried it in Europe, Vietnam, Central America, and Iran long before Baby Bush came along. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Daddy Bush are recent examples. Baby Bush just happens to be the current elected tyrant, who tried to do it in Afganistan and now is trying to do it in Iraq.
I probably have this all wrong. Or do I?
This is what Bushocracy is trying to cure in the Middle East. This is an important piece of the Muslum culture, (can't even choke out the word religion) dying for the cause. For the US to conquer the Middle East, would we would have to kill all of them, the men anyway?
Just as important as dying for the cause, or getting our side to kill them, is their side killing women and children for the cause, just for political gain. Doesn't matter whose women and children they kill, ours theirs, anyone's. They have no trouble killing their own people, Muslims killing Muslims. Or better, Muslims killing Jews. It happens here, too, like in Seattle. We are fighting a culture where life is meaningless and death is important.
Can we who fear death and love life, especially life's toys (like SUVs) co-exist with a culture who thinks we are as nuts as we think they are? And whose goal is to eliminate us, the infidels?
Our goal isn't to eliminate them. Or is it? Us pushing Bushocracy on them probably means the same to them. Which is worse?
Bushocracy is a term to cover the concept of a society where people elect their tyrants and whose tyrants try to prop up fake favorable governments in other countries with their own military. Baby Bush didn't invent it. We tried it in Europe, Vietnam, Central America, and Iran long before Baby Bush came along. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Daddy Bush are recent examples. Baby Bush just happens to be the current elected tyrant, who tried to do it in Afganistan and now is trying to do it in Iraq.
I probably have this all wrong. Or do I?
posted by John | 7:57 AM
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I try to stay apolitical in the blogosphere because, well, I'm a hypocrite, I guess. All the writing people tell you not to offend readers. Having said that, though, other people's blogs are fair game.
So...all I wanna say is this: I watched the tsunami unfold on TV...the destruction, the death, the misery and pain. Then I watched Katrina...similar destruction, death, misery and pain.
Then came the money and the manhours that would never be enough to undo what nature had wrought.
So now we watch what's going on in Lebanon. Same thing, only this time man-made.
And next it'll be money and manhours to put Lebanon back together again.
What an unenlightened world.
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