Reply #12: Ethnocentric jingoism: Salve for the American Soul [View All]

What in the hell is with all of this "they're all irrational, unlike us" shit?

"Unfortunately, Islamic governments cannot always be depended on to act rationally."

That would be, I guess, as opposed to the perfect rationality now on display here in the home of democracy, truth, and freedom? You are, I trust, aware that nuking Vietnam was bandied about as a real option by the cool, rational, thinking people who then governed God's Own Country?

What is rational about what the government of the USofA is up to?

"Many of these countries are ruled by fanatical theocracies that believe that infidels (that's us) can and should be murdered at the pleasure of Allah."

As opposed to a fanatical plutocracy that believes that infidels (that's anybody but us) can and should be murdered at the pleasure of Dollars?

"And to make matters worse they believe that dying a martyr's death guarantees a trip to paradise."

This would be as opposed to the far more rational notion that dying in a war, no matter how immoral, makes you a hero who died for a noble cause. And would anyone care to venture a guess as to what percentage of the young people killed in Bush's war were described at their funerals as being at that moment in the presence of God in Heaven? High 90s would be my minimum.

This crap about "they want to kill us all because we're infidels" stuff has just got to stop. There's no great Muslim army massing to invade our hallowed shores. There's no great interest amongst the vast majority of Muslims (and by that I mean something on the order of 99.9999%) in killing Americans, unless they happen to be Americans who have invaded their country, and that's a national issue, not a religious one.

I put the likelihood of a madman from America unleashing a round of nukes way higher than some mythical Muslim on a jihad. You think there's not discussion going on right now about how keen it would be to lob a few Iran's way?