Sultan Knish
On these shores, Americans commemorated the cold-blooded gleeful murder
of thousands of their fellow men and women by bowing their heads and
enlisting in one of the free work projects of the National Day of
Service listed at Serve.gov, a combination that says all that needs to
be said about our present day relationship with our government.
In newly liberated Benghazi, the city that Obama named as his moral
imperative for fighting an illegal war against the will of the American
people, gunmen opened fire on the American embassy and killed an
American security guard. That dead man is the first American casualty in
the Libyan War-- a casualty that will be acknowledged and honored
around the same time that someone in the media calls the Libyan War, a
war, instead of sticking to the shameless lie of a No Fly Zone.
In Cairo, a mob of a thousand climbed the wall, tore down the American
flag, tore it to pieces, burned it and tried to replace it with their
own flag with the words, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his
messenger”. That message was the same one that the murderers of
Americans have shouted, written and videotaped themselves chanting in
one form or another.
As befits a great power, the US Embassy in Cairo responded by condemning
"the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious
feelings of Muslims." The US Embassy's statement was virtually
indistinguishable from the one issued by the beleaguered Christian Copts
of Egypt. The Christians of Egypt act that way because they live at the
merciless mercy of Muslims. Apparently so do we.
When the Prophet-Criers climb our walls and murder us, we apologize for
having offended their religious feelings. The same religious feelings
that took down the World Trade Center as part of a murderous crusade
going back over a thousand years. They kill us and we elect a man with a
Muslim background to tour the world and explain to all the angry
Muslims that we're really very nice people once you get to know us.
If they want to be ruled by Muslim governments under Islamic law, we'll
give that to them. If they want a billion dollars, we'll send it to
them. If they want us to apologize for having free speech, we'll do that
too.
If they burn a couple more embassies, we'll even see do something about
that Bill of Rights which does not permit the gendarmes of tolerance to
arrest a man for blasphemously calling Mohammed a pedophile and burning a
Koran bought and paid for with his own money. Not like our more
enlightened European cousins who put a stop to that behavior long ago
and are sniffing around the flanks of Sharia law to see which parts of
it can fit safely into their tolerant order.
And of course burning a Koran is ridiculous. So what if they burn
American flags. So what if they burned 3,000 people, the ones who didn't
jump or kill themselves some other way. So what if their great ambition
in life is to climb over all our walls and kill most of us and enslave
the rest because the Koran, that most holy book which unlike New Yorkers
must not be burned, tells them to do it. So what?
They can kill us because someone somewhere insulted their prophet. But
when they kill thousands of us, then we must feel eternal shame because
we renditioned some of the perpetrators, put them in a room and then,
under medical supervision, poured water on them until they eventually
told us about all their other plans to kill us.
The answer, you see, is that we are better than they are. And we get
plenty of opportunities to show off how much better than them we truly
are.
They kill us and we apologize to them. They kill us and we spend a
fortune developing drones that will be able to take out the leader who
ordered the attack with as little collateral damage. And then when the
natives dig up the daughters they murdered last week and the
brother-in-law they beat to death last month in a clan feud, and dump
them on the smoking vehicle, and the local stringers who have
arrangements with Al Qaeda and the Taliban snap away at the wreckage, we
will feel bad because after all the billions we spent developing and
deploying a weapon meant to kill as few people as possible-- there are
the bodies that prove we are terrible people.
And when Karzai, whose prisons are full of raped and mutilated women,
yells at us in front of the camera, before taking a hit of coke, and
going off to have sex with one of his dancing boys, tells us that we are
terrible people, we will believe it. Because we are better than them
and we have a conscience.
This collective conscience does not responds to the mutilated bodies of
Americans, in Afghanistan or in New York. It is a conscience deaf to the
pain of the thousands of soldiers and their families who died or
suffered crippling injuries because the new administration wanted to win
the hearts and minds of Muslims, the only people who truly matter, by
minimizing civilian casualties. But show that conscience a naked Muslim
with women's underwear on his head and it will shriek and clutch its
pearls. It will turn that Muslim into the shame of America, while
looking away from the Rape Rooms that same Muslim supervised.
After September 11 we could have struck back, the way we struck back at
Japan, without mercy or empathy, with no concern for the enemy as
anything but a faceless mass that hurt us. We could have leveled their
cities, brought their civilization to the ground and done it with no
more concern than a government legislator deciding how much money to
squeeze out of the taxpayer for this year.
But we didn't do that. We did not come to hurt them, but to save them
from themselves and teach them how to be good people like us. We wanted
to make them into the kind of kind noble people who only respond with
the minimal amount of violence possible to an attack. The kind of people
who will let thousands of their own people die rather for the sake of
their conscience. Good people like us.
Our experiment at civilizing the savage failed miserably in Iraq and
Afghanistan. It will go on failing as often as we keep attempting it.
And at the end of the experiment, there will be burning embassies and
savages crying, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his
messenger", the same words that the bearded bandit who was one of the
first Muslims and their many times great-grandfather was crying out as
he was raping the shamelessly unveiled tribal woman who would become
their many times great-grandmother.
"There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger" means that the
Muslim need not waste time worrying about his conscience. His
conscience is a Koran and that book says that he's entitled to kill any
time that an infidel offends Islam by mocking his prophet, walking in
front of him or building a skyscraper that is taller than a mosque. The
Muslim need not waste time pondering the ethical implications of killing
another human being to know that he is better than we are. His little
black book assures him that he is better than us, that he has every
right to kill us and that if he fails, he will be raping demon virgins
who are so anorexic that their bones can be seen through their flesh.
But, we oh what good people we are, we will apologize for having an
embassy and for having free speech and for getting our embassy in the
way of their mob and our free speech in the way of our religious
sensibilities. And we will see about getting all of the above out of
their way. After Muslims killed thousands of America,s we did everything
we could to learn about their religion, to celebrate it and soothe
their ruffled feathers. Like an anxious host, we are still rushing
around to see that our Muslim guest has enough coffee and egg rolls
while promising to do something about that free speech that offends him.
Like all good people, we are expert at blaming ourselves. Aside from the
rabble who claim that there really were no Muslims on those planes and
possibly no planes at all, just a vast conspiracy by the people in our
own government who were not at all Muslims, there are the other rabble
who claim that our foreign policy motivated the attacks. One way or
another, we are to blame. That is how we know that we are good people...
by blaming ourselves. The more we apologize and ask our murderers to
forgive us, the better people we know ourselves to be.
One day, and this is our highest hope, we will look a Muslim terrorist
in the eye right as he shoots us and beam into his soul a message of
hope and peace, and just as the life bleeds out of our veins, the Muslim
will fall at our feet and be filled with the understanding that all
life is precious and sacred. And even if we are the last of our kind,
our deaths will have been worthwhile if by the final sacrifice of our
civilization we can elevate the savage out of his savagery.
We are you see, good people. Not moral people nor sane people. Morality
requires values and sanity demands contact with some outpost of the real
world outside the simulacrum of outraged noise on all the channels,
real and virtual. Morality is hard, goodness is easy. Morality is about
right and wrong, but goodness is about condemning those most like you in
order to feel better about yourself.
Goodness is childishly easy. Go to a movie theater and wait for people
to talk. Then feel good about not being one of the talkers. Goodness is
watching thousands of people getting killed and feeling good because
unlike those crazy rednecks or the bridge and tunnel crowd, you feel no
yearning for vengeance. Goodness is watching Americans die and then
picking out a Muslim convenience store and offering him whatever support
he needs against all those bigots who are sure to show up with American
flags and torches sooner or later, because unlike you, they aren't good
people at all.
We are a nation led by immoral people who think they are good, by
politicians, professors, priests, rabbis, pundits, crackpots and
activists who having no values are determined to excuse all the evil
that they do by being relentlessly good people. When they sacrifice
something, whether it's a night out or your life, then they will make
sure that everyone knows it. And when you protest, they will tell you
about all the sacrifices that they are making, because despite all the
blood and filth on their hands, they are good people. Good amoral
sociopaths who learned everything they know about right and wrong from
television and feel-good slogans.
The bigger their hypocrisies, the bigger their sacrifices, and they love
nothing so much as sacrificing others. Their conscience is always
bothering them and they put it to sleep with showy acts of public
goodness. They will not feed a beggar on their street, but they will go
around the world to feed an orphan, especially at someone else's
expense. And that way they remember that they are good people. Not just
good people, but better people than us, the miserable mob waving torches
and flags who don't know the value of condescending to an Imam at an
Iftar dinner or feeding a Bangladesh orphans on someone else's dime or
spending thousands of lives to enable Muslims to be the good people that
they must be somewhere underneath all those ugly layers of murder,
child-murder and mass murder.
So, no we will not fight back after September 11. Nor will we fight back
when our embassies are attacked. The good people running things will
take stock of what we have done that could have caused this and
apologize for it and remind us to feel good about being such good people
who diplomatically apologize to others instead of bombing them from the
sky. They will feel worse about a burnt Koran than about a dead
American because they are sociopaths with no more understanding of right
and wrong than the teleprompters who feed them their lines. All their
morality is learned behavior and their teachers were liars, morons and
lunatics who passed on their disease to the next generation.
Embassies can burn and so can skyscrapers, but like all amoral people,
they will cling to the moral high ground with their fingernails because
it is the only thing between them and the abyss. They will tell us that
we act the way we do because we, as a nation, are better than they are.
We don't lash out, we don't get angry, we don't go to war for revenge.
We are not meant to feel anything except for the satisfaction of serving
others, whether it's picking up trash outside an inner city school on a
National Day of Service, that happens to coincide with something called
9/11, or dodging Taliban bullets so that Afghan schoolgirls can get a
proper education.
We are meant to be good people and that is what good people do. They
give until it hurts and then die knowing that their giving natures kept
them on the moral high ground of being six feet under.
We are good people. Too good to fight. Too good to defend ourselves. Too
good to keep our laws and retain our traditions. Too good to be angry
when we are killed. Too good to want to do anything but make our killers
understand our pain. Too good to respond to our own murder with
anything but immediate guilt.
We are better than they are. Not better at survival, but better at
rationalizing our own destruction. We are so good that we open up our
cities to our own murderers and close our eyes at the airport so as not
to make a single one of them feel bad. We could fight back, but we're
too good. And if we start defending ourselves, then we will be forced to
ask, "What is the difference between us and them?" Once we start
killing, we will become murderers and it is better to be murder victims,
it is better to mourn in defeat than to celebrate a victory, it is
better to serve as Dhimmis than to live as conquerors.
We could fight back, but we are better than they are. That is a decision
that our leaders have made and they remind us of it every September 11.
They remind us that they are too good for victory. We could object, but
they would only remind us that they are better than we are.
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