Responding to a Post at The Left Coaster
Go check out this post by soccerdad at The Left Coaster —as well as my response in the comments there, reproduced below, to the following passage:
The fact that there is a civil war going on and that many middle and upper class Iraqis have left or are trying to leave the country works to the neocons favor. Look at Gaza and Lebanon. There is a pattern here, produce physically destroyed, failed states that they feel will be easier to control.
I’m not understanding you.
For one thing, Iraq is lousy with rich people. Kurdistan is full of very happy big-time businessmen and owners, as are many parts of the major cities in the center and south, including Baghdad. You just don’t hear about them because Nic Robertson doesn’t tell you.
Second, what is the real common controlling factor in those three states? Is it really the neocons —by which you actually mean Jews— who control Iraq? Do the Jews also run Lebanon? If the Jews really did run Gaza, one suspects that the situation there would have been resolved a long time ago —and to the absolute and indubitable advantage of the state of Israel.
No, the real common factor in those three places is lunatic Muslim behavior. That is what is producing “physically destroyed, failed states.” In a few weeks’ time, Hizballah —that great savior of Lebanon— managed to utterly undo and embarrass the whole idea of a Cedar Revolution. They did it of their own accord and without provocation. They have completely fucked their own country because they cannot be done with their Jew-hatred. They cannot be done with their dreams of making themselves an Iranian proxy state on the coast of the Mediterranean. And Gaza? If there has ever been an enemy of the Arabs in Gaza, it has been the entire rest of the Arab Middle East, which has sold those bastards out for generations now —just to leave a festering abcess in the midst of Zion. If the Saudis or the Egyptians or the Jordanians themselves actually ever cared about the plight of those people, they would have done something substantial about it a long time ago. They would have funded infrastructure and commerce there instead of funding madrassas and mosques where their Jew-hating garbage could be stirred about. They would have made it possible to better integrate Palestinian society into Israeli society by recognizing the right of Israel to even exist before they were made to.
And in Iraq? Well, that’s Muslims attacking Muslims. That’s not ecumenism at its best, you know. Lutheran anarchists stopped smashing up the papists’ pretties centuries ago. But these people? They’ve been split in half since the first generation after Mohammad! And violently so. At least the Pauline Christians were smart enough to bury the Gnostics —and did so peaceably, by political will, not tribal warfare as Mohammad’s followers did.
