Too Much To Dream

Massive attack

First I'd like to start out by noting how subtle is Steven Den Beste's way of referring to some some moron's nasty-ass, stupid statement as "so-and-so comments." He never does, for instance, what I just did. Steven Den Beste is much more smoove than I have the talent to be.

Second, I'd like to make an announcement to individual Palestinians everywhere: you guys need to stop the Stupidfada, and stop it now, because if you don't, at the end of the day you are all going to end up dead. That is because the combined forces of the United States, Israel, and what other allies we may still have who aren't still trying to play the appease-'em-all game are going to kill you. And you know what? Your so-called Arab "brothers" (who despise you and throw you out of their countries whenever they can) won't care. Oh, they'll blither and moan and cry crocodile tears, but at the end of the day the only sound coming out of Riyadh or Cairo or Baghdad will be a sigh of relief. Again: your so-called Arab "brothers" don't care about you. You know who does care about you? Us, we in the "West," idiots that we are. Big softies that we are. Big sentimental slobs who still try to see the silver lining in every cloud of hate, who still harbor some hope that you have the same desire to live peaceful, productive lives that we do. But you know what? Sympathy only goes so far. There is not an endless supply of the stuff in the human soul. It can be beaten out of people. It can be drained like blood from a wound. It can vanish. And when it does, stick your head between your knees and kiss your ass good-bye.

Oh, we'll feel real bad about wiping you all out. We've raised the expression of Guilt to an art form. We'll make movies about the horror of our deeds, and erect museums to your sorry dead selves. We'll flagellate ourselves and the broadcast laments of "how could we let it go so far" will go out to Andromeda. But you'll still be dead. So stop it.