2005-07-18 - 1:41 p.m.
EVIL IDEOLOGY
By Peter Fredson
July 18, 2005
Newspapers today reported an extension of the Christian Morality Play by Tony Blair that explains everything people have been eagerly awaiting to hear about the Iraq war, terrorism and assorted suicide bombings. Here is the genial theory in a nutshell:
“ASSOCIATED PRESS 2005-07-17 07:09:54”
“LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair warned yesterday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, and authorities on three continents widened investigations into the London terrorist bombings, in which the number of people confirmed dead rose to 55.”
"The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with," he said. "And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology . . . It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it."
Evidently many of us were wrong about the reasons for terrorism. It wasn’t about lying to start a war, it wasn’t about Weapons of Mass Destruction, it wasn’t about Saddam Hussein having nuclear weapons and pilotless planes with which he was actively threatening to level parts of Crawford, Texas.
It wasn’t about the First Bush before the Gulf War or about his corporate cronies putting bases into the Middle East, or selling poison gas to Saddam or about any act of aggression or insolence on the part of the corporate allies. It wasn’t about any of the grievances of Osama bin Laden.
It certainly wasn’t about any grandiose pronouncements about dominating the world made by the Bush Neoconservatives.
No, it is about illogical, unreasoning, loony ravings of Muslim malcontents misled by their sacred book and false god, not to mention crazy Mullahs with long beards and funny black robes.
You see, you just can’t talk to those people. They are fundamentalists, like the Taliban, in which they try to impose their religion on the rest of the world. They are so brain-washed by their sacred books, by their preachers, that they will not admit any logical discussion. They are ultra-sensitive, and the slightest perception of insult to their religion will set them off permanently.
They will quote from their sacred book at any opportunity and take seriously the ravings of their prophet Mohammed.
So, it’s not our invading Iraq, it not about Shock and Awe killing thousands of “collaterals.” It’s not the cruise missiles, tanks, mortars, grenades, or the automatic weapons which have destroyed large parts of Iraqi cities.
It’s not about foreign troops holding weapons at the ready, knocking down doors and houses, lobbing shells at any place they wish, killing and maiming people. It’s not even about our stealing their oil, converting it to our own use, and generously giving it to one of the most corrupt corporations in the world, once led by our Vice-President.
It’s not about our installing over a dozen air-bases for permanent occupation. It’s not about our installing a fake administration, and giving a fake sovereignty for fake freedom and fake democracy.
Nothing is our fault. We admit nothing, apologize for nothing. We just want to rule the world and what's wrong with that?
No, it’s those illogical, unreasoning, loony and raving people, over there. They hate us. They are EVIL personified.
And, believe me, Bush knows evil. Blair too knows evil because he has talked to Bush about it.
So rest easy and get set for ten, twenty or thirty years of illogical insurgency, of thugs that somehow will give their lives (which Bush and his cowardly cabinet will not do willingly) for their beliefs.
Bush says it’s worth it, and that should satisfy the most skeptical of his critics. Right?
