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| When Israel Gets Nuked |
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| the unasked question: what should we do then? |
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This is Dark Cloud on Wednesday, January 22, 2003. Two things happened yesterday to catch your attention here in Boulder. The United Nations has appointed Libya to head up its human rights commission, and the Boulder City Council has sent a note urging diplomacy over violence in Iraq. Hard to say which to take more seriously, but let’s give a go, shall we? Fine. Repeat: Libya is now heading the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Say it again. And again. Really, what more can be added? We can expect the Commission to begin equating the arrests of a Sioux teenager for drunk driving on a Wyoming highway with the Holocaust and the sack of Jerusalem by the Crusaders. Oh wait, Libya doesn’t officially believe the Holocaust took place, and that Jews run the world, or at least the United States, anyway, so they’ll have to use something else. Slavery. Well, no, because elements of Libya in the South and their friends in Sudan and all through Africa to this day still deal in slaves, but once head of the Human Rights Commission, who knows? How come there aren’t any people dealing with the slavery and slaughter of tribal conflicts in Africa between all black populations? Because it is all black populations, and if we here in Boulder know anything about professional liberals, it’s their inherent hypocrisy. Not just for the racist element, but because campaigning against tribal warfare is politically incorrect, primarily because of the use of the word “tribe” which somehow is degrading. That’s why the media love the term “clan” – its technical synonym - because it recalls the Scots, who were white and European and rather dashing if a MacLeod might say so himself. Of course, if you know anything about the Scots, my people, beyond Walter Scott’s fantasies and Hollywood’s delusions, you know no tribe of headhunters has ever been as violent, uncivilized, and murderous as the Highlanders on a streak. Still, much of the death and misery in Africa is because of tribal warfare, having virtually nothing to do with the West, but with water and food. But Boulder wants to cower and not go to war. I’m not sure I do either, but it’s because I detest President Bush and the Republicans, who are using war threats to remove civil liberties and install militant Christianity as our nation’s creed. Still, this is based on the assumption that Iraq and Islam in general would like us and leave us alone if only we’d leave them alone. I don’t buy it. Anti-occident Islam doesn’t resent our actions as much as our existence. They are a rigidly patriarchal society, and even though the moronic rabbis of Israel relentlessly issue an unending stream of 12th century solutions to domestic problems every bit as undemocratic and uncivilized as the mullahs, Israel at least has elections and, absent the more revolting elements in Likud, needs peace. Leaving Iraq to diplomacy is leaving Iraq to build the bomb. Once Middle East Islam has the bomb, Israel will be the target, and then where will we be? I, for one, think everyone knows this and that a sizeable portion would welcome it for two reasons. One, anti-Semitism is a banked fire in western society. Secondly, I think a large portion of the world would secretly be a lot happier if the Middle East were wiped off the map. Jerusalem, Cairo, Baghdad, all gone except for robotic oil pipes. I feel elements of both feelings in the alleged Peace Movement, which is one of the reasons I neither trust nor respect them. I don’t deal with mutual exclusives. I agree with virtually all the attacks on Bush and this administration. But I still think they’re right on this issue. And one of the reasons is that, officially and socially, nobody talks about how they’d feel and what we should do if Israel got nuked, as it surely will when Sadaam gets the bomb. |
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