THE LONGEST AND LONELIEST WAIT. (AL-INTIZAR AL-KABEER.)

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PREFACE: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE HARMFUL IDIOTS.

I’ll preface this essay by telling you a true story, the best I remember it.

A roommate of mine from SUNY headed back to Lebanon after finishing his B.A. We’ll call him Amin. He was neither Shia nor Sunni. He was blond with blue-green eyes. A dashingly handsome fellow, tall, who many a woman in Buffalo likely still grieves over. In Lebanon, he gathered up money from family and friends and made his way to Baghdad.

Amin didn’t know that town. He bought land outside Baghdad, in an area which had no construction whatsoever. A gutsy move. Then he headed to the mayor’s office, Baghdad’ mayor. He introduced himself. He told the mayor that he bought land and he told him where. He said he needed water, sewage, and electricity. He informed the mayor that he would be starting soon the construction of an ice-cream factory–that the machines already have been ordered from Italy. Amin relayed later that in no time at all the work on the three projects –water, sewage, and electricity– was begun. The efficiency of the Baghdad government, he recalls, was nothing short of dazzling. No Bechtel; no Halliburton. Iraq was a modern state. The factory building went up. . Business proved so brisk that Amin hired the Italian technician full-time, instead of having him visit periodically. He recalls that no one ever, no one ever, no one ever asked him about his religion. (His name was neutral.) It was enough for the mayor and other officials that he was Arab and that he was entrepreneurial.

He relayed that the factory was making so much money that at times he had a hard time shutting the safe. He relayed that the area outside of Baghdad where he had built his ice cream factory later became a thriving industrial region of the capital.

I tell this story by way of apologizing for having to refer to the Iraqi Arabs as Sunni and Shia, the common nomenclatures which the harmful idiots have imposed on the Iraqis and on us. I know the harmful idiots. I’ve gone with them to school, college at various levels. Their harmfulness, in their know-it-all imperial classification of others by primordial belonging, is truly a phenomenon. And it serves them well: divide and conquer. All of that while they refuse any like ethnic classification of our society, hiding under the pretense of us all being “taxpayers,” in their politically correct pretense. No, Everybody Loves Raymond isn’t an Italian stereotype – food, family (the mother), and machismo; Seinfeld isn’t a New York stereotype about Jewish neuroticism and defensiveness against others in a big city; Two-and-a-Half Men isn’t about WASPS, all washed-out and having no purpose but adventures in sex and divorce; Cheers isn’t about Irish stereotypes of drunkenness, albeit in the person of a reformed alcoholic, Sam Malone. And The Cosby Show isn’t about African-Americans being consumed by class trumping race.


THE LONG AND LONELY WAIT

As the harmful idiots change them from a proud Arab people to beggars-in-their-own country, having placed them on the dole as we did native Americans, on arid reservations, the Arab Sunnis of Iraq will have a wait that’s likely to be the longest and loneliest–

-- As they watch the resources of the country come under the full control of Iran’s Badr/Dawa state.

-- As they watch the Badr/Dawa state allow the harmful idiots control of critical ministries within that state, confirming the plantation nature of the post-conquest domain once called Arab Iraq.

-- As they watch the north of their country become a wealthy independent state, with the Badr/Dawa government disbursing significant sums of the plantation government budget to that state.

-- As they watch their leaders diversify the beggar payroll, adding to the one from the harmful idiots other payrolls from the Gulf countries’ intelligence services, to the point where they’ve become drugged, making yet more pronounced the stalemate in the Arab Sunnis’ political and economic life.

– As they watch these leaders show no interest in creative coalitions that would break the Arab Sunnis’ isolation and , more importantly, re-unify Iraq.

-- As they reminisce on how the conquering harmful idiots delivered their leaders (and likely will continue the same) to the lynch mobs, while Arlen Specter lectured the Kangaroo court on how to speed up the process.

(A friend who once was a constituent of that Senator, and knows about him, and who is politically correct, told me as I was writing this essay, “Don’t chalk it up to him [Specter] being Jewish; chalk it up to him being an asshole.” I’ll take that any day. I’m not sure though that the Arabs, both Street and the elite -- and these are the ones I read mostly for this newsletter --, weren’t exposed to so much which warrants a different perspective; I think they were, big time. But I accept to chalk it up to Specter as an asshole and wonder why anyone with any smarts --including an asshole –- would accept to have blood on his hands in a matter that’s none of his business, where the execution already had been a given. Unless he had allowed himself for some ethnic reason to be mobilized beyond the level allowed by the culture of the U.S. Senate. That friend, too, said that the Lebanese Christians aren’t Arabs. He doesn’t know the region. The Christian Lebanese are credited -- by all -– for the modern renaissance of Arabic literature and poetry. Strangely enough, the luminaries of that revival were immigrants to the U.S.! As much as they want to: not the harmful idiots, not the ghetto-hugging Israelis, and not the Islamists, Arab and other, will be able to return the Lebanese Christians to the ghetto. Defeats are liberating. Long live defeats.)

-- As they reminisce on how Christian Zionism conquered them in the name of Israel’s security and oil.

-- As they wait and watch for the harmful idiots to wage war on the Iranians, to need them for that war, and have to return them to the top.

-- As they lose hope that this war will ever happen and know that hope shouldn’t be allowed to spring eternal.

-- As they see the dole the harmful idiots hand them, the dollars, become akin in value to toilet paper , with each one hundred dollars worth less than $70, and a pay of $300 worth less than $190. While the prices of essential food staples hit the roof.

-- As they watch the harmful idiots go bankrupt and prepare us to conceding to Iran a regional role which Iran would never have dreamt of but for the invasion -- which would be fine from a harmful idiot perspective, but would not be so (superficially) from an Iraqi Arab Sunni.

-- As they reminisce on how their own brothers , the Kuwatis, the Saudis, and the Jordanians, (especially the Kuwaitis, who had given an Arab cover to the harmful idiots to set a trap to Saddam Hussein, which trap the harmful idiots later fell into because they didn’t know and still don’t when to stop–but that doesn’t matter now)–these so-called Arab brothers who stabbed them in the back worse that Iran ever did.

–- As they watch the the intelligence services -- the secret governments -- of these self-hating Arab states evolve a working relationship with Israel, the very country which was a partner in the conquest and humiliation of the Iraqi Arab Sunnis by the harmful idiots, th esponsors of Holy Israel. Holy Israel which evolved such a venomous symbiotic relationship with Arab and Muslim-hating extreme right wing elements both within its diaspora and without. And which not-so-secretly has unleashed a campaign of its own to assure Western hatred of Arabs and Muslims. Which Israel-associated extreme-right wing elements toiled hardest to conquer the Arab Sunnis of Iraq.

–- As they watch their conqueror, the harmful idiots, lose influence the globe over thanks to the conqueror’s currency becoming as valuable as toilet paper from dollar stores, while the Christian-Zionist Crusader, Bald Samson, and the September 11 Queen go about spinning that all’s well in the best-est of all worlds.

-- As they see China, made wealthy by “globalization” (read: de-industrializing America) which the harmful idiots shoved up our ass, and Russia, which wealth too is due to the same–the globalization that spiked oil and gas demand and associated speculation and made Russia wealthy–

–- As they watch these two (Russia and China) coalesce into an alliance at a time when the harmful idiots’ troops are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan, playing the role of the gofer, so that the Crusader, Bald Samson, and the September 11 Queen can point to “success” under their rein.

–- As they listen to louder and recent voices from Iran, coming out so close to threats by the Russian President, from China, related to the harmful idiots’ plan to set up a missile defense shield in the former Eastern Europe -- such Iranian voices making it clear to the Shia of Iraq that signing any long-term security agreement with the US (stupid, really–but we’re dealing with...) is tantamount to treason. And realize how much their life now is totally out of their control and in the hands of harmful idiots, Russians, the Iranians, the Chinese, and what have you -- that they're no longer a player, not even a minor one.

-- As they see the devaluation of the dollar store toilet paper AKA US currency , while losing its value, not result in manufacturing companies returning to the American mainland, to make us all wealthy, and our dole to the Arab Sunni worth something, since it still is cheaper to manufacture in Asia.

–- As they see the harmful idiots desperately seek ways to burst the oil bubble, which is drawing the last drops of oxygen out of their miserable political existence – a bubble that is directly connected to the seller-financing by the Chinese of the American consumer beyond the outer limits of consumption – with the Bush Administration and the Federal Reserve having pushed the envelop so as not to enact public policy -God forbid–

-- As they see their conqueror being brought down by the very staple it was and is after –- oil

–- As they wait for Iran to decide whether it’s better for Iran to encourage a Sadr-Sunni alliance, to raise the hot issues of control by the harmful idiots over Iraqi oil and their military occupation of Iraq, than to rely on the current Badr/Dawa government, which is lackadaisical when it comes to taking a stand against the harmful idiots.

–- As they wait for Iran to decide whether to back such an alliance as the best means to defend itself against the harmful idiots, or put its eggs all in the basket of a nuclear bomb to scare away the harmful idiots. And in Hizbollah to rain missiles on Israeli cities , as Israel did on Lebanon’s civilians, if Israel/the harmful idiots ever decide to go after Iranian sites.


-- As they watch, with uncertainty and confusion, the harmful idiots and the Badr/Dawa state beat the al-Qaeda Sunnis --

–- . . .hoping that the defeat of these al-Qaeda Sunnis would help evolve within their own ranks a brand of political Sunnism, made up of their young, that is willing to weld itself a political Shiism, one that is patriotic and rejecting of “federalism” and, they would hope, one that’s less dependent on Iran . They would hope that both of these forces would be calling for the harmful idiots to leave their country and not control their oil -- two sure issues for successful political mobilization in post-devastation al-Intizar al-Kabeer.

As they lose all hope, surrounded by enemies, treacherous brothers, an occupier with a global agenda and a three-decade long policy to do something (now destroy Iraq) to break OPEC’s hold on oil prices, albeit it's no longer OPEC alone -- the Arab Sunnis will have to wait for national salvation. It’ll likely be the longest and loneliest of all waits.