This piece originally posted at brainspank.org 9/10/10
There’s no question that this fucktard down in Gainesville Florida who wants to burn the Koran is an abject idiot. There’s no doubt that such an empty headed and bigoted stunt will inflame anti-American sentiment and therefore increase the risk faced by all our troops and even citizens of this country abroad and at home. His "church" has less than fifty members. That he matters and is able to somehow command worldwide fascination concusses my gag reflex. The man is an egomaniacal idiot.
But still. We’ve all got our panties in a self righteous bunch over the danger he represents to us all when it’s our own actions and policies that built the stage and carpentered the proscenium for this bullshit to occur on top of and underneath. This is fucking stupid. Islam didn’t start this. Terrorists who happened to be Muslim did. Ask yourself where we’d be if they were the same stripe of Christian fundamentalists who murder innocent abortion providers in churches in the name of God and Christ. Think about that because they are all the same.
Karl Marx said that religion is the opiate for the masses. Oh shit, he was a commie.
Defense Sec. Robert Gates called whackjob Terry Jones personally and General David Petraeus waded in as well as the pointy hatted Pontiff hisself. This is absurd. For Patraeus and Gates to pay or lend attention to this charlatan is bad enough. For either of them to pretend that he’s one microbe worse than either of them should insult the intelligence of anyone paying attention. The war in Iraq was wrong. Hundreds of thousands if not more died because we lied to ourselves or allowed ourselves to be lied to. The war in Afghanistan accomplishes nothing. It is in fact, an egregious human deficit. We make it worse by by being there everyday. Hundreds of thousands will die and we will have accomplished measurably less there than we did Iraq, if that’s even possible once the shouting is over.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Duh.
These wars and these men prosecuting them are our most exclusive and challenging petard.
They would have us believe that this goofcock would mitigate American interest in peace more than them? Blow me.
As for the Pope, who gives a mad fuck? Like he or the Catholic church could possibly be trusted as the arbiter of anything. Morality? Ethics? Decency? You’ve got to be fucking kidding.
They are all merely a punchline and this is all incredibly stupid because we are the joke. If you’re paying attention, you get that.
Drinks for my friends.