Tyler Durden wrote:
And if you ask me, fanaticism never lasts very long anywhere, only for about a generation during turbulent times.
That is what King George and his redcoats said about the ragtag colonials, American as well as those who suffered the king's abuse into the 20th Centruty. James Donald wrote:
Iran is fostering war in Iraq and cooperating with Al Quaeda, which after what happened to Saddam indicates a fair degree of insanity.
That is what King George also said about the colonials, who then quite rationally arranged help from King George's enemies.
Iranian financed military movements, Hezbollah and Sadr, have been fairly well behaved - they don't target other people's children - just their own, but their willingness to cause the deaths of their own children is even more frightening than Al Quaeda's antics, though marginally less repugnant morally.
People so willing to sacrifice children, are apt to be willing to use nuclear weapons.
More King George-type remarks, as with arrogant tyrants everywhere and their authority suck-ups. To be sure, the children in their realms suffer as if colonials, or slaves, or wives, or sex toys, or faux-sacrosant idolized figurines, or nascent rebels who must be whipped regularly for moral instruction in subservience. If not Iran, then Ireland, if not Ireland, then a new Iraq, or NK, or PK. What the US-UK hegemon cannot face is that the bloody challenges to their moral supremacism is just getting under way inside and outside their borders. PJ O'Rouke's fighter planes of winners won't mean shit in this murderous crusade where the enemy wears no easy to spot uniform. The Chechens are the bellweather warriors. Kids and women among them indifferent to the old guys self-serving rules of war. Kill the heads of state, defense ministers and generals first, then down the line in reverse order. That'll likely bring over the lower downs who've eaten their shit, fought their battles, hated their guts. Women and kids among them.