September 13, 2006

A Jay and Silent Bob Moment in the War on Terror

Do you remember Jay's rap from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back? Just the first two lines of it.

Yeah, that's how I'm feeling right now about the war on radical Islam.

First, there are our allies. Check, out this analysis of the present state of Pakistan. Hint: it aint good. For every hot Pakistani bikini model it looks like there are hundreds of crazies willing to kill her and it isn't getting better, it's getting worse.

Second, there are the don't-question-our-patriotism liberals in the academy. Okay, so its not alright for me to question the aesthetics of bad-gay homosexuality but it is okay for the former President of Iran to call it a crime punishable by death? All in the name of what? Starting a dialogue. I feel dirty being part of this profession today. I mean, more dirty than usual.

Third are the idiot scholars and senior diplomats that the media often turn to for 'analysis'. I heard Zbigniew Brezezinski on the radio the other day talking about how there was no such thing as an ideological battle between the West and Islamist extremist. It's not so much that I blame Carter's National Security Advisor for being an idiot who doesn't know how to read al Qaeda's own statements as much as I blame the morons at NPR for giving him time to spread this lunacy.

NPR also ran a segment by an 'expert' who says that we should let Islamists take control of Muslim countries so that people will see that the adoption of Sharia is not the path to utopia. This is the let them come to power so they can fail approach. Which is fine, except this asshat of an expert failed to mention that Islamists have been in power in Afghanistan (Taliban) and failed, and are presently in power in Gaza, Sudan, Somalia, and Iran---all signs pointing toward no utopiayet--- yet Muslims all over the world continue to clamor for this self-imposed slavery! Nice theory asshole.

But I expect moderate Muslim countries to be in reality barbaric states with only a lukewarm commitment to helping us fight Islamist forces. I expect liberals in the academy to be idiotic f*cktards who jump on every opportunity to criticize the smallest mote in our own eyes while ignoring the beam in the eyes of our enemies. I expect the media to turn to so-called experts and senior diplomats who's expertise consists of nothing more than the worst foreign policy in American history and contrarian theories based on no evidence.

All this is par for the course. No big deal. Expected.

What is really putting me in a mood, though, is the notion that Republicans in Congress are now in a race to the bottom with the Democrats over who can be weakest against an enemy that wishes both parties nuked.

What are the first lines of Jay's rap again? Repeat those over and over again.

UPDATE: Double eff-eff-eff, mother-effing-eff.