Friday, April 20, 2007
Iraq is truly an evil place, but we cannot abandon the Middle East
We are seeing the true nature of a death cult.
by Ferdinand III
This war should have been over long ago, with only mopping up operations in train in 2007. Sadly the post-invasion plans neglected some obvious factors. The most crucial was the demonstration to Islamic and Arab culture that not allying oneself with the victorious powers would lead to an early grave. Arabs and Muslims understand ruthlessness and power. They don’t respect public works projects; complex political systems; or compromise. Durm and Strang before debate and separation of powers.
Without fighting the war to win, and trying to do it on the cheap, the inevitable happens. Costs spiral out of control. The undermanned and under-funded US army gets stretched. At least 500 civilians die on average each day. Most are butchered by militia many of them Iranian armed. Porous borders still exist. And we still have an immature Iraqi army; a corrupt Iraqi police force; a thieving government that siphons off US aid; and daily infrastructure terrorism. Yet annihilating a nexus of terror, money, weapons and training centers mandates hard and oftentimes bloody fighting, as well as logistical and administrative nightmares, twists and turns.
But even given these difficulties a positive outcome is not only mandatory, but possible. The terrorist elements in Iraq lack the support of at the great majority of Kurds and Shias and by most accounts the majority of the Sunni population as well. The terrorists have no positive agenda, no central leadership and virtually no territory of their own. No ‘Great Power’ is helping Al Qaeda or Sunna/Shia fascists. Iraq is not Vietnam. It is quite obviously however, a tragedy of evil.
There is evil in the world. Death cults are the embodiment of evil pretensions. Pagan cults are obsessed with death. Pre-modern Near Eastern and North American pagan cults murdered thousands each year to drench the soil with human blood in an effort to propitiate mother earth to ensure natural and human fertility. Slaves past their prime, or incapacitated, were slaughtered in mass ritual ceremonies to appease the cult’s various protective ‘gods’. Cannibalism was common, the belief being that eating the flesh of the great and good, or the sacrificed, enabled one to imbibe the nobler elements of humanity. Slavery, submission, arbitrary justice and poverty were the main elements of the pre-modern world. Pre-pagan cults as evidence in Islam and refracted in Iraq, are mere reflections of an ideological compulsion to kill, murder and engage in bloodletting.
Islam as a pre-modern moon based cult has little that is noble in its construction. There is only one area of the world that Islam could begin its development – the Arab world. Arab society is the perfect vehicle for the creation and extension of pagan practices. What one is seeing in Iraq is the unmasking of a death cult, of a society and a culture that elevates pride, obedience, patriarchy and submission above life. Iraq has been transformed by 1300 years of Arab invasion, squatting and destruction. Once a Garden of Eden, the Mesopotamian region today reflects the cruel reality of Arab and Islamic culture. There is some truth in the liberal-marxist position that Iraq is not, and might never be ready for democratization. Arabic-Islamic culture is to blame.
Palestinians murder Jews and engage in civil war. Arab armies invade Israel 5 times continuing their assault on Christian and Jewish civilization which began in 632 A.D. Iraqi mothers blow up their cars in public squares with their children inside. Thousands of young girls are murdered in Europe and the Near East in honor killings for what American blacks call ‘dissing’ the parents or the family. Slaves are sold on Arab and Pakistani markets. Arabs fly to India to have weekend sex with 10 year virgins. Something is severely disturbed in the Arab-Islamic mind.
Many of us have argued that Iraq is not a mess. For this observation we are ridiculed with emails highlighting the costs of the Iraqi conflict with usually exaggerated numbers of dead and wounded. But the point is valid. Iraq is of course a mess as an isolated case example of neo-imperialism gone bad. But it is not a mess in the context of 1400 years of history. Take Braudel’s longue duree of history and look at Iraq in its proper context. It is the fulcrum of a 1400 year war between the death cult paganism of Islam and everyone else.
Geographically and militarily Iraq is the perfect place to start to roll back the Islamic tide. We did make a mess of the post-invasion occupation but running away now will not solve anything and it will surely add to future troubles. Bush’s mistake was in deciding not to fight the war to win; not telling the truth about the costs in lives and money; not being frank about the 10 year occupation; and moronically declaring victory 10 years early.
Defending civilization is brutal work. In the post-Christian, post-modern world it is open to question if the West has the moral and physical courage in its foreign and domestic policy to not only oppose, but defeat the pagan death cult of Islam.