Baghdad as Camelot

[Guest guest]

C-R-A-Z-Y !

 

by

 

Stephen P. Pizzo

 

Raconteur at Large

 

 

Oh hell, I know it's Saturday, and normally I don't

bother you on weekends. But some days it's just

unavoidable. And today's news makes it unavoidable.

 

Holy madhouse, Batman. Am I going crazy or is everyone

else going crazy?

 

Day's like this make that more than rhetorical query.

 

Where to begin?

 

Moats. Let's talk moats. You know, those ditches

around castles and villages that were all the rage a

thousand years ago. Well, they're baaaaccck. Yep. Once

the first line of defense for medieval castles the

moat has now been embraced by the modern world's last

remaining super power.

 

 

IRAQ: Iraqi officials plan to dig a series of trenches

around Baghdad in the coming weeks to seal it off and

control movement into and out of the city, The New

York Times reported on Saturday... " We're going to

build a trench around Baghdad " -- a distance measuring

about 60 miles (97 km) -- " so we can control the exits

and entrances so people will be searched properly, "

Brig.-Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf told the Times on Friday

in an interview. (More)

 

So, the next time you hear a reporter ask a US

official if things are getting better or worse in

Iraq, don't waste a single neuron listening to his

reply. All you need to know is that ...

 

they're building a moat around Baghdad

 

 

That's it.

 

And it raises more questions than just “how we doin'

in Iraq?”

 

The US defense budget will approach half a trillion

dollars this year, a goodly portion of which is being

spent on high tech missile defense systems, stealth

bombers, nuclear subs and such.

 

 

Pentagon Report:

U.S. Successfully Pursues the Global War on Terrorism

 

The fiscal 2005 budget includes robust readiness and

acquisition funding, important legislative

authorities, and other essentials for winning the

global war on terrorism.

Readiness. The request funds the military’s training

and readiness requirements and sustains prudent

readiness standards, e.g., for flying hours. Ongoing

initiatives include

Improving metrics to evaluate force readiness, with

emphasis on evaluating readiness relative to a full

range of missions, not merely the traditional major

regional contingency operation.

Fleet Response Plan, adopted in fiscal 2004, expands

in fiscal 2005 and will increase the availability of

naval assets for duty worldwide. (MORE)

 

And yet, the best the Pentagon has to offer in Iraq is

a moat.

 

I leave all the implications of that to you to sort

out.

 

 

And since we are on the subject of institutional

mental illness, now this:

 

 

 

Pope Offends Muslims

 

Afghanistan's Taliban on Saturday demanded Pope

Benedict XVI to apologise for remarks linking Islam

with violence, adding the comment showed the Christian

West was waging war against Muslims... " We strongly

condemn it, " Mohammad Hanif, who regularly speaks to

the media on behalf of the extremist insurgent group,

said... " We also want the Pope to apologise before the

Muslim Umma (nation), " he said...The remarks were

" obviously part of a crusader war that the West,

chiefly America and (President) Bush, is waging

against Islam and Muslims, " he said. (More)

 

 

That story SO dovetails with the moat story. It's as

though we've all been dragged a thousand years back in

time. On one hand we have the most technologically

advanced military on earth building a moat to protect

a city from invaders. On the other hand we have a

European monarch denouncing Islam because of it's

violent expansionist doctrine.

 

And, in response Muslims rushed into the streets and

violently proved the point.

 

Fools to left of me, clowns to the right. Here I am,

stuck in the middle with you.

 

It's getting to the point I'm afraid to turn the news

on in the morning. Is it really global warming that we

have to fear? Or could what really end mankind as we

know it is that somehow we threw evolution into

hyper-reverse?

 

Can you doubt for one second that the Pope's remarks

will spark a whole new Christians v. Muslims/Muslims

v. Christians wave worldwide? ( " Yo profit was so

stupid that... " ) Remember that flap over the Dutch

cartoons? Well that was nothing compared to this. This

one has legs... very, very, very old legs.

 

So, let's review: We have moats abuilding AND a

religious nut in silk robes, who lives in a castle and

rules unchallenged, poking a stick in the eye of the

Judeao/Chrisitain world's arch enemy, Islam. On one

side we have western nations filled with biblically

lobotmized citzens, lining up and putting on bullet

proof vests (armor.) On the other side we have an

endless supply of Koranically lobotomized hordes eager

to earn their heavenly bones by getting across the

moat and killing the guys in armor.

 

Been there. Done that. And done that, and done that

and done that. How many people do you figure have

already died over that spat in the last 1500 years or

so? Millions? At least.

 

But don't stop counting. Because, it appears neither

side has changed, or learned a thing. They seem to

have caught their breath and are ready to for another

round.

 

Thanks for listening. I needed to get that off my

chest. Now I must go. I've got a contractor coming

over to give me a bid on a moat.

 

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