POLITICS AS USUAL

I don't pretend to be an authority on the politics of the war in Iraq, but the major players in it are easy enough to understand with crayon line drawings. Like a dysfunctional family tree, it plays out amazingly like alot of those other middle eastern countries that take turns blowing each other up over religion, or political beliefs, or sadly, a deadly combination of the two. And since were involved, the ghosts of the Viet Nam past haunt us. Appropriately so, I think, because once again we have stuck our noses into something beyond our reach, Viet Nam was an issue of nationalism (in my opinion, anyway) Iraq and everything that's been following it around is an issue of a gross intermingling of church and state, Islam style.
As much as the US tries to understand what's happening, they never will...these people don't want fucking democracy, they want things the way they have always been. The only use these people have our brand of democracy is that we buy the oil that supports the economy, and, maybe, in private, the Kill Bill DVD or some good old american porn. They fucking hate us and everything we stand for and covet our decadent lifestyle underneath, which only makes them hate us more.
When it comes to the flotsam and jetsum of western society, they can't wait to grab it up and rub one out as long as they don't get caught doing it. When it comes to the concept of democracy, they view it with derision and contempt. And I say they should, because if you look at the arc of democracy it looks all hump backed and crippled and generally full of shit, with the symptoms erupting right around the time of the gulf of tonkin and creeping steadily toward quasimodoville ever since.
Everyone of those fuckers in the middle east are crazy, just like they think we are all crazy. And if we were really smart we would leave them all to their own devices, and maybe they will destroy themselves faster with their suicide bombers and insurgents and whatever else allah compells them to do to each other, and when it's over we can just go in and mop up. Unless we undo each other with legislation and division and erosion first...it's not as bloody as a backpack filled with C-4 and ballbearings going off at a bus stop, but it's just as deadly, just deadly quiet. Those people at the bus stop know they're dead but we won't figure it out till it's too late.
The middle east is a fine example of what happens when there is no division of church and state. As our current administration attempts to put our own division of church and state on the symbiosis fast track, you have to wonder what the fuck they are thinking. Especially now. It's an odd kind of political paradox if you think about it, we are forcing our ideals on a part of the world ruled by religion as we creep toward their model at the same time.