Sharon the Clueless
by John deLaubenfels
Check out this article in Ha'aretz online. Here's the first paragraph:
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon believes that a successful American attack against Iraq could create 'new momentum' for the diplomatic process in the region. In his view, the Arabs will be disposed to negotiate and compromise when they are convinced that they lack a military option."
Earth to Sharon: Hellooooooo!! Is anybody home???
Of course, we should not be surprised. This is the same Ariel Sharon who is trying the exact same strategy, on only a slightly smaller scale, in the occupied Palestinian territories. It could be summed up, "Keep killing more of them till they stop killing us." And how's it working for you, Ariel? I haven't yet heard of a suicide bombing in Israel today, but that could be because the day is still young.
Rhetorical question: who is more clueless, Sharon or Bush? All right, it's a stupid question, since no instrument could ever be expected to measure a difference that small. Both of these half-wits have their fingers on nuclear arsenals. Where, I wonder, in the world could anyone go and feel reasonably safe from them? Are there any jobs in Antarctica?
I know I'm wasting my breath, guys, but let's try one more time: When you drive a people into hopelessness and desperation, you not only make them angry, you make them feel they have nothing to lose. When you will not listen to their grievances, you convince them that killing people on your side, anyone at all that they can get their hands on, is the only way to make you listen.
Israel is acting this way toward the Palestinians. The U.S. is acting this way toward Iraq. Studies report that child mortality there has tripled since the first Gulf War. The United States deliberately targeted water treatment plants during that slaughter, and to this day our bombs and embargoes block Iraq's attempts to bring clean water back to the nation. Why? What legitimate military purpose does this serve? And, more importantly for those who don't give a damn about Iraqi civilians but presumably do give a damn about their own hides, what can we expect the reaction of young hotheads in Iraq and elsewhere to be?
More terror directed against Americans. No end in sight to an ongoing escalation of terror. Try to guess all the imaginative ways that will be employed! Forget apocalyptic science fiction novels; Bush and his cronies are setting up our real-life future (or should that be real-death future?) to beat anything anybody's dreamed up to date. And of course, even more horrible than the acts of terror themselves will be the Total Information Police State, now just in its infancy, but soon to come into full maturity (if such a word can be used to describe anything so infantile).
Seriously, if George W. Bush were secretly in league with Osama bin Laden, is there anything more helpful he could do than start a war anywhere in the Middle East right now? Isn't this, you know, self-evident? If bin Laden is alive today, he must be praying, "PLEASE start a war with Iraq!" Why does Shrub the Idiot want to play into this guy's hands? What am I missing here?
Oh right, I almost forgot. Like Sharon, Bush is absolutely clueless. Like Sharon, he's in love with killing (see this interesting analysis, that Bush becomes articulate only when he talks about "punishment and death"). And like Sharon, he will lead this nation to destruction if we allow him to.
I don't want to be pushy or anything, but this might be a good time to protest, while there's still something left to lose.
Does anybody know the price of a one-way ticket, in cash, to Antarctica? Oops, heh heh, sorry, I meant to say round-trip, on my Visa. Oh God, is that Poindexter at the door?
December 16, 2002
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