The Losing Game

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

When 9-11 when down my first analysis of the affair was to compare Christian fundamentalism with Muslim fundamentalism. Kamikaze Muslim fundamentalists were clearly willing to die for the freedom of their own people. What about Christian fundamentalists? They seem to only be willing for others to die for the freedom of fundamentalist action. As we can see by the recent deaths of the hit men who carried out the assassination of bin Laden, the whole affair is a lose-lose situation for both sides. Let's face it: fundamentalism is for losers.

William Casey saw warfare in economic terms. In his time the bigger economy prevailed. Perhaps he would seek out the bigger economy that was propping up the Taliban and al-Qaeda. He would trace their funding through Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to find that his own policies have pitted the US against the US. Two factions of religious bigotry supplied by petro-dollars butt heads with each other in a race to the bottom. Which will be the biggest loser?


(BTW, my observations on Christian fundamentalist cowardice predated my learning about Air Force policies of promoting dominionism and protecting their pilots from enemy capture.)

Comments

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

You almost had a grasp on the point, and then it escaped you. The Kurds don't want part of Turkey because they're Muslim and Turkey is ... something, they want it because they're Kurds and they think they used to live there.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

They want a part of Turkey for nationalist reasons. I'm referring to Greeks and Turks, who falls into which category is defined solely by religion.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I know, and you seem to be doing that because you missed my point.