Attributing conspiracy theories to genuine stupidity is a preserve of right wing nuts.
However, NPR’s recent stories have been about playing Tchaikovsky and being a fan of Metallica. In Baghdad. While both Karim Wasfi and Eddy Moretti were charming, it makes one wonder if America still hasn’t come out the cold war. This war isn’t cold — it’s not not even a war.
I propose a new solution. A separate mass of land for all traitors. I shall be its President.
One of the problems the government faced was opposition from legions of mothers whose sons had been maimed or died in the war. To confront this problem, the government-controlled TV would parade a mother whose son had died in the war in front of the TV on a regular basis. Invariably, this “show mom” would be carrying an infant child and a few other siblings with her. And invariably, she would say something to the effect that “I have given one child to this ’sacred’ war, and I am ready to give the next one.” Almost always, there would be an adoring crowd who would follow her statements by chants of “Allaho-Akbar” (God is Great). And again invariably, her statements would follow by a not-so-veiled threat from her and the adoring crowd. She would say something like “I and my family would not tolerate traitors and betrayals to the faith and country”. Then the crowd would break into several standard chants such as “Death to traitors” or “War, war, until victory.”
Sarah Palin was much better dressed than the average show mom paraded on Iranian TV more than 20 years ago. The show moms were typically dressed in a black veil. But that’s about the biggest difference. The rhetoric was eerily familiar. When she was finished, I knew I had seen her before. Only that it wasn’t her. It was her ideological predecessors at a different time in a different country.
Five years on, where is the oil? And, why are the idiot Americans wanting change and not cheaper fuel?
Like a policeman in Pondicherry said, vellaya iruntha foreign kaaran.