The Church of the Blinding White Light of Stupidity

Will Armageddon be televised?

I've had this running through my head all week...

Encouraged by his success as a novelist, Saddam Hussein has released a pop tune he feels is destined to reach the top 40 on Islamist radio stations all over the world.

Sea of Glass
to Blondie's "Heart of Glass"

Started a war, used poison gas
Bagdad turned to a sea of glass
seemed like we could win
only to find
stupid idea
F**ked from behind

Tikrit glows
what in the hell was I a thinking
Allah knows
my ship of state was a sinking
and I wouldn't go
I stayed until the end
then missles struck
I am so truly f**ked

Ooooo-oooo-oooo glooow

Ooooo-oooo-oooo glooow

Started a war, used poison gas
Iraq turned to a sea of glass
seemed like we could win
only to find
stupid idea
F**ked from behind

Ooooo-oooo-oooo glass

Ooooo-oooo-oooo glass

but this is how I really feel...

I am so bummed about this entire mess. I write silly songs to keep from getting depressed about the poor folk that are going to die. I will lose no sleep over Saddam, any member of his cursed family or any member of his regime. Good riddance to bad trash.

I'm thinking of our soldiers, the Iraqi soldiers ("motivated" to fight by the threat of torture and death for their families) and the citizens of Iraq. I wouldn't be supprised if Saddam pulled a Jim Jones and gassed most of the major population centers of that country. The central defining trait of his personality is a childish attitude of "If I can't have it, no one can!"

"See what you made me do? I had to kill them to save them from you!"

I remember what my oldest brother told me about his tour in Viet Nam, that most of the civilians wanted nothing more than rain, a buffalo and rice seed. They didn't care about politics, they just wanted to plow their fields, feed and shelter their kids and cuddle with the wife. I can relate to that. I am happiest when I know my family is safe and secure. I don't need to be rich or powerful, I don't want to be king. I just want to die of old age before my wife and kids.

Dominance or submission.

Those are the choices.

Every age has had psyco bastards that feel its their destiny to tell everyone else how to live their lives and nothing good ever comes of it.

If we submit there will be no peace for the forseeable future. Islamists will never be satisfied with anything short of their total dominance and our complete submission. They have never deviated from their clearly stated goal, to convert the world to an Islamic State, complete merging of church and state, under the control of the church.

Compromising with an unyeilding enemy is surrender. If we give anything now, the other side will just come back for more concessions. Their goal is total dominance so no honest compromise is possible, only detours from a direct path to that goal. The goal has never changed.

Hope without reason is self delusion. If there was any indication that they could be satisfied with any compromise, I would entertain hope, but I have no hope.

This is going to get ugly and the only choices left to us are brutal victory or a slow, painful death. The Islamist interpretation of the Koran tells them that G*d has chosen them to convert and rule the world and its perfectly fine to kill all the non-believers to attain that goal. We will have to kill hundreds of thousands of people to stop this or allow them to kill even more of our own.

We didn't choose this, we don't want it, we have tried our damndest to avoid it, all to no good result.

Let Armageddon begin and feel the pain in your heart. Cry for the enemy as well as the friend.

Here's to a quick victory and may all your kin stay safe.

Posted by Mike S at February 1, 2003 11:47 AM