The secret
word is “botched assassination” The
brave fighters of the Pakistani Taliban have attempted to silence a 14 year old
Pakistani woman who is possessed of sufficient courage to speak out against
their intention to deny Pakistani women education and other civil rights and
benefits.
She
deliberately, publically, opposed the Taliban.
The Taliban, in an attempt to frighten her, issued an assassination
order. She labeled them the repressive, misogynistic,
thugs that they are.
In a tribal
society where honor is a killing matter, she painted the word, “coward,” on their
foreheads for all the other thugs to see.
They attempted to assassinate her, attacking a van of unarmed young
women. Like the inept bullies they are
commonly depicted as in the Western world, they bungled their attempt, botched
the assassination, and left her alive.
The young
woman has become a hero known worldwide for her great personal courage. The Taliban will find no glory beyond their
sordid tribal camps. They have entered
the ranks of the most despised murderers of history; the Crusaders, the Inquisitors
of Spain, the KKK of America, the Einsatzgruppen and SS of Nazi Germany, and
the spawn of a hundred groups ready to kill for their religion and the hatred,
which it generates and feeds upon.
Brave fighters of the Taliban, you have covered your selves,
not in glory, but in eternal dishonor.
The Taliban exist
by that name or another, in every major religion, which sees itself in a
contest with other religions, to dominate the world. India and Pakistan are engaged in a long-term
war over territory, which is also interwoven with religion. The Balkans are still fighting a centuries
old war between Islam and Orthodox Catholicism.
The North American Continent features various Protestant Christian cults
against Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism Add Mormonism to that grocery list of supposed
enemies, hoping to block the Protestant’s drive to replace a republic with a
theocracy while simultaneously pushing American culture into the same
repression of women that we claim to oppose in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In our
ongoing electoral process, Romney has squatted squarely in the repression
camp. In a bid to keep the teavangelists
voting for him, he has declared that we should arm Syrians who will be “our
friends.” The attached graphic may sound
suspiciously like the, “They all look alike!” refrain used when stopping black
or Latino citizens to search for someone who may have committed a crime.
The danger of
arming Syria is quite readily apparent. The
various factions, be they of common religion, tribe, or other commonality do
hate us for one or more reasons. Arming
them is simply shooting ourselves in the foot again. Ideologically, they are all too similar in
appearance. To become involved in a
ground war in the Middle East is to repeat the mistakes of the Bush II administration
in an admixture with Reagan’s trickledown economics. We have no rational reason to dance with
either of those policies ever again.
Yes, Mitt, what ever could go wrong?
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