Things can change for the better!

Despite all the bad crap happening in the Middle East, don't forget that people can change for the better over time.

For example... look at how much the US has changed over the last 50 years. Nowadays when 100 white men chase one black man, it's no longer called a Klu Klux Klan lynching. It's PGA tour.

Coming soon! The New & Improved Arab "Solution"

Following up on yesterday's post about how the dictators of the Arab states have lost control of their "solution" to the Israeli "problem". In brief, the Persian (Iran) Shiites have produced an improved "solution" to the "problem" that that Arab kleptocracies use to justify their power. Hezbollah has proven to be more effective at getting rid of those pesky Jews than the Arab Unity solution of old.

Now, I am afraid, that yesterday's cease fire is only a lull before the storm. The Arab dictators are not going to sit by and allow Hezbollah to steal their customers without a fight. It won't be long before we see the new and improved "Arab Unity" (tm) product come out.

The new product will strive to show the Arab street that they, not Hezbollah, have the balls to do even more damage to Israel. If Hezbollah can lob 3000 missles into Israel, then just wait to see what the new product can do!

I'm deadly serious here. I know I am coming across as being smart ass about this. But I've been following the blogs of a lot of people who are in the Middle East, and it is starting to happen.

In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood is doing everything they can do tie themselve to Hezbollah in the minds of the Egyptian public. They have been plastering posters all over congratulating Hezbollah on their brilliant victory over Israel.

In Syria today, dictator for life baby Assad proclaimed that he is going to take back the Golan Heights from Israel. He threathened Israel with "great harm" if they attack Syria. Since Syria claims that the Golan Heights is theirs, it won't take much to consider anything Israel does there as an attack on Syria.

In Iraq, where the Sunni's and Shites are in a de-facto civil war, the Iran backed Shites are emboldend by the victory of Hezbollah. Don't expect any compromises there. Just more killing.

The Sunni ruled Gulf States such as Saudi Arabia have forced their Muslim leaders to issue proclamations reminding their citizens not to look to Hezbollah as heros because they are Shites. Just to remind you, the state religion of Saudi Arabia, Wahhabbism, hates Shites. No doubt that the kings and princes who rule the Gulf States are shaking in their boots right now.

Thanks to Iran, the dictators of the Arab states find themselves in a jam. They don't want to go to war with Israel. They want things to go back to how they were. A never-ending conflict using the Palastinians as cannon-fodder for a morbib theater of mass-distraction. The Roman empire did the same thing by putting on gladiator games to the death to distract the Roman citizens while the empire was looted.

Large numbers of their citizens sense that Israel is on the ropes, ready to fall. They demand that their government finish them off by striking now as hard as they can. They demand that the dictators do what they always claimed they would do if given a chance.

So what are they going to do? Their options are getting pretty limited.

They could try to undo all the lies and propaganda they have produced. Too late for that! The did such as good job of telling everyone that Israel is the reason for all their problems that if they tried to say anything to the contrary now, they would appear to be part of the problem.

They could declare war on Israel and attack. Not a good idea. They tried this three times before and ended up having their asses handed to them on a platter each time.

They could do nothing. Then they would loose credibility in the eyes of their citizens, who will then flock to the opposition parties who are trying to do a "Me Too" with Hezbollah.

They could get medival with their own citizens and brutally remind them who has the weapons and power in their country. But that might envoke a coup, because the military might not back the dictators on this one.

My prediction? I think there will be a lot of saber ratteling in the next few weeks. Egypt's Mubarak will find himself with no option but to rip up the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement that has been in place since 1976. Saudi Arabia will find themselves having to declare a state of war with Israel, but not attacking.

The states will then beg for time while they "prepare" for battle. You will see lots of moving around of troops, lots of smoke, but actually very little fire.

If they are really smart, and really evil, they will put their political opposition in the firing line. Perhaps they will allow these nuts to go ahead and attack Israel, just like Lebanon alloed Hezbollah to do. Then they will sit back and watch as Israel slaughters them. Let Israel do the dirty work for them.

So, it ain't over yet.

Airline Security

Thanks to all the Islamic fuckwads that want to go to heaven by killing hundreds of infidels, we now have turned the experience of airline travel into something akin to a prison intake process. If cocaine and herion smugglers can slip massive amounts of drugs into countries on airplanes. Then what makes the stupid security people think that they can stop explosives? How hard is it going to be for a terrorist to jam a roll of plastic explosives up his asshole? If drug mules can cram condoms full of coke inside their body cavities. Then why can't these jerks do the same.

So are we going to have full body cavity searches soon?

I have to fly to Los Angeles next week. Thanks assholes. Now I can't bring a bottle of water. I can't brush my teeth with toothpaste. I can't put anti-perspirant. I can't use saline nasal spray to keep my nose from clogging up. I can't use chap-stick to keep my lips from peeling in the dry air. Thanks a fucking hell of a lot.

You know what we should do? We should give each passenger a hand gun. Each seat can be equiped with a pistol in the arm rest. If some stupid terrorist tried to hijack or terrorize a plane, then all the other passengers are free to shoot him (or them) in the head.

That will make anyone think twice about fucking around on flight.

Shitty job no sane person wants

Wow. I can't believe that there are people on the planet stupid enough to think that they can stick their solders in southern Lebanon to act as a buffer between Hezbollah and Israel. They might as well issue them with vests with bulls eyes painted on them.

Who is the hell is going to be stupid enough to sit there and wait to be killed? So they are going to let Hozbollah run around, fully armed, doing what ever the hell they want. And they have to just sit there and wait to be attacked.

And the stupid peace-nicks can't understand why no country is jumping up and down to volunteer for this duty. Hello..... 1983 calling. Remember when the world tried to do the right thing and did this job? What did we get for it? Nothing but hundreds of dead US Marines. A bunch of dead French military too. Hezbollah simply sent suicide bombers in trucks to attack barracks.

I swear. The UN has their head so far up their ass that they think this is a solution. That is bullshit. If you are going to put servicemen and women in harms way, then give them everything they need to control the situation. Give them the resources and permission to do whatever it is they need to do their job. Including bombing the shit out of Hezbollah before they attack.

I think all Shehan and all those looser Hollywood leftist should go there and make a human shield. Let's see how long they live before Hezbollah kills them.

Arab dictators lost control of their "solution"

Sorry I have not written anything in a long time. I've been extremely busy with work, which has just left me too tired to sit on a computer to work on personal things.

There was a tetonic shift in the politics of the Middle East today. Enough to get me to mention this development. Today Israel and Hezbollah have entered into a cease fire. Hezbollah has, in the eyes of the Arab world, beat Israel.

In the world of advertising, the most basic method used to sell something is to (a), create a problem, then (b) sell the solution. You see this all the time in everything from cars, shampoo, medicine, electronics, and even politics. For example, ads tell you that you might have dandruff, and will be embarrassed by your friends (the problem). The solve this problem, you can buy their sponsor's downdraft shampoo (the solution).

As I've mentioned before in this blog, the ruling dictators of the Arab world have used this same principal over the last 70 years to sell themselves to their own citizens. It is why the Palestinian problem still goes on and on for 4 generations now.

In this case, the dictators of Arab middle east create a problem. The problem is the oppression of the Palestinians by the evil Jews of Israel (and their American sponsors). This problem is perfect for them. They use it as an excuse to justify their rule, to suppress political opposition, to ignore human rights, to ignore abuse of authority, and so on.

They sell themselves as the solution to this problem. They claim that they are holding up the dignity or fellow Arabs, or Muslims. They claim that they can't address the grievances of their own citizens while their poor Palestinian "brothers" continue to be repressed.

And to their credit, they have been extremely successful with this. They have managed to stay in power and make themselves and the friends rich. They have managed to keep this "problem" from being solved. It is a perpetual problem, and they are the perpetual solution.

But, their "problem" has gotten away from them, and now it may be their cause of their undoing.

September 11 demonstrated that their problem has turned vicious and had spread internationally. The hatred they fostered at home against Israel (and America) in order to distract their people from revolting muted into something they never imagined. They lost control of it. They had created a monster, and it was now loose in the world.

At first, they pretended it didn't exist. Only when this monster attacked Saudi Arabia and Egypt did they finally wake up and realize what they did. But it was too late. They are trying to get their monster back, but they can't.

Now, they have a more serious problem. They have competition. A new "solution" to their problem has appeared. It's name is Hezbollah. And the recent war with Israel has shown that Hezbollah not only talks the talk, but walks the walk. The Arab citizens are starting to notice, and it scares the shit out of the Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

For so long they have pounded the message that Israel is the problem and the cause of their misery that their citizens now accept it without question. It is as fundamental as the sky is blue and water is wet. They can't undo it.

So now Hezbollah shows up with a better solution. The citizens of Egypt, Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab dictatorships are now looking at their governments and asking "How was Hezbollah able to do in one month what you could not do in 40 years?"

Naturally, the next question is going to be, "How can I replace you with Hozbollah?" That is why so many Sunni Arabs, especially opposition groups like The Muslim Brotherhood, are trying to align themselves with Hezbollah. This attraction is powerful enough to even overcome the inter-religion difference of Sunni Arabs and Persian Shiites.

It is funny that these same Arab dictators never imagined that a better "solution", other than themselves, could ever come along when they decided to make their perfect problem.