OK. That's @#* IT!

How much longer do we have to tolerate a bunch of jumped up goat herders?

The Saudi elite on this earth are dedicated to

• maintaining an absolute monarchy,
• ensuring that oceans of blood are spilled for nothing, and
• ensuring that vast numbers of unfortunates live in thrall to what is the very opposite of enlightenment, decency, and reason.

Read this:

In July 2005, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey stated that “even today, we believe that Saudi donors may still be a significant source of terrorist financing, including for the insurgency in Iraq.”^[1]

Now tell me if the only thing wrong with the Great War on Terror (GWOT) is that it started in the wrong country and is WAY too unambitious. Saudia Arabia is, simply stated, an indecent excresence that needs to be dealt with, whether 51st state, colony, joint suzerainty, nuclear waste disposal site, feminist exile and reeducation ashram, penal colony, missile test range, or vassal state, Col. Bunny pretty much doesn't care. No, seriously.

We could really get revenge by having Saudi Arabia made into a U.N. trusteeship. No. Wait. . . . There are some things that decent human beings simply can't do.

It has to be one of the supreme ironies in this life that so many Western people have strived so earnestly, so bravely, and with such genius to improve the lot of humans on this earth and yet it is the inheritors of that magnificent, complex culture who today kiss the ass of moral cretins, whose co-religionists scurry, scurry this very moment for the means to obliterate us.

In comparison to what has been wrought in the West, there is the meager intellectual contribution of the Arabian subsubcontinent amounting pretty much to algebra, a cool number system, stunning advances in the basic sciences (just kidding), integrated circuits (just kidding), polyphonic music (just kidding), open heart surgery (just kidding), the Dhow-Jones stock market index, and a slime mold variant of Islam known as Wahhabism that elevated absolute male dominance, intransigence, sterility, infantilization, and obscurantism to social ideals. Other than that it was a major advance in human history.

And the lode star of that Wahhabism is, you guessed it, the Koran -- variously but never more accurately described than by this writer:

In some Westerners it [the Koran] engenders other emotions. For Gibbon it was an "incoherent rhapsody of fable," for Carlyle an "insupportable stupidity," while here is what the German scholar Salomon Reinach thought: "From the literary point of view, the Koran has little merit. Declamation, repetition, puerility, a lack of logic and coherence strike the unprepared reader at every turn. It is humiliating to the human intellect to think that this mediocre literature has been the subject of innumerable commentaries, and that millions of men are still wasting time absorbing it."^[2]

This was the inspirational document for the Arab scourge that advanced upon Europe directly in centuries past (aided by liberal policies regarding war booty for the troops) and that inspires pathetic terrorists and vicious malcontents today.

The Islamic assaults of previous centuries were turned back or reversed by men with steel in their backbones. If the news of continued Saudi financing of operations against our own troops now afield doesn't enrage you, maybe there's no steel in yours. Or is rage beneath you? Do you intend to shrink from every challenge? Do you intend to cower before any insult? When will you ever put it on the line?

The takeover of the American embassy in Teheran was an act of war -- and we did nothing. Giving aid and comfort to our enemies in the field is an act of war -- and we do nothing.

It appears that as a nation we simply don't have it in us: Haliburton! Bush lied! No exit stategy! Missing art treasures! Stop the war! Bases covered. It's Miller time.

Bruce Thornton said it brilliantly:

Increasingly we Westerners resemble the Eloi of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, beautiful, gentle, highly civilized hedonists whose fate is to be devoured raw by the brutal Morlocks. We are the beneficiaries of a culture created by those before us who forged European civilization in the fires of resistance to Islamic jihad: in Spain, in Sicily, in Eastern Europe, in Greece--the plunder, rape, slaughter, massacres, sacks, kidnapping, and enslavement perpetrated by the armies of Allah were for centuries fought by those whose names now most Westerners have forgotten or would be embarrassed to claim as their own. Don John, Charles Martel, Leo the Isaurian, Prince Eugene, Montecuccoli, Andrea Doria, El Cid, Sobieski, Charlemagne, Suvorov, Boucicaut, Hunyadi, Fernando II of Castile, Alfonso I of Aragon, Guiscard, Harold Hardrada--who among us knows anything about the men who fought and killed so that Europe, and Europe's offspring America, today looks like Europe and America instead of looking like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Syria?

Because of the brutal violence of those warriors against jihad, we in the West today enjoy the luxury of cynicism, cheap irony, effete tolerance, and hedonism. We moral dwarves stand on the shoulders of those giants and spit on their heads, thinking our ingratitude is really an intellectual sophistication superior to the primitive superstitions and naïve ideals that have made our lives of freedom and prosperity possible.

Meanwhile jihad by other means--demography, immigration, terrorism, the oil weapon--continues apace, at least until the time when a nuclear, chemical, or biological weapon falls into the hands of a modern jihadist and we are returned to the sort of slaughter our ancestors suffered for centuries.”^[3]

Notes
^[1] CAIR Founded by 'Islamic Terrorists'?" By Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, FrontPageMagazine.com, 7/28/05 (link in original; emphasis added).
^[2] The Origins of the Koran, Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book. Ed. Ibn Warraq. Prometheus Books (emphasis added).
^[3] We The Moral Dwarves. By Bruce Thornton, 5/18/05 (emphasis added).