RENT-A-COP: THE NEW HARMFUL IDIOTS’ TENURE IN IRAQ AND THE PERSARAB GULF REGION

second equally rough draft

THE AWAITED ONE (A POEM)

A shoe he dashed
From Muntazar
Two shoes. . .
From an orphan and her mother
For the millions of refugees
For oil
For his beloved Israel
For a country he dismembered
A mercenary for another
That canine lover

For the shame he brought to Maliki . . .
He'll order torture
And maybe good old hybrid lynching
(American Christian-style)
For Him
The Awaited One --
A bad shot
Humanity's Hope
That sweet, sweet
Oh so sweet . . .
Across the sky
A dashing star...
M u n t a z a r

(Muntazar in Arabic means “Awaited one.”)

(Important Disclaimer: The Editorial Board of this blog --moi-- doesn't condone any act of violence, however minimal, though it does feel that red, ripe, Mesopotamian tomatoes would've looked better, visually-speaking.)




RENT-USA-TROOPS.COM. (“WE PROTECT REACTIONARIES -- “OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS” -- THE OLD FASHIONED WAY: FOR MONEY)

Hey, come’on, rent yourself an American soldier. Or a fighter jet with pilot and co-pilot, and 1000-member support team, Or a hummer with embedded anthropologists, journalists, graduate students. The military-industrial complex is genuinely complex.

Until further notice, the harmful idiots have turned us into a security agency, a mercenary army of sorts. Our bankruptcy, magnified first by the unpopularity of taxing during Crusader/Bald Samson/Israel-is-Where-Jesus-Resides rein, and now by the fear that taxation might exacerbate the looming and devastating economic depression. (It’s said to be a severe recession now; but when Starbucks lets go of a friend of mine, an older gentleman -- then it’s a depression.)

THE DIASPORA BOYS ARE ALL OVER TOWN AND WILL MONOPOLIZE, ALONG WITH THEIR ARAB-AMERICAN AND MUSLIM STOOGES, HARMFUL IDIOT DEALINGS WITH ARABS, IRANIANS, AND MUSLIMS.

Israel’s alternative diaspora boys (“the ululating liberals” in the background for a few years) are all over the place, advising and outlining. They’ll likely be holding on to key posts (are already) as they (and, to a much lesser extent, their Arab-American and Muslim-American stooges whose careers they arranged) will again have a monopoly on anything Arab, Muslim, or Iranian. But it’s unclear how much real influence they and the country (meaning poor us, not Israel) actually will have.

PHILOSOPHER-WARRIORS: NO TO HALF-ASS WARS

My assessment is that the Defense Department and not State (or even the CIA) would be calling the shots. And Defense might be asked to trim the fat. In view of the fact that philosopher-warriors seem to come out of so many nations’ army officer corps , especially in the Third World and here, it’s likely that these will not be in any mood to pick a war with Iran. As philosophers they should know, shouldn’t they, that the nation doesn’t want to spend on them and on Israel’s diaspora boys’ schemes to keep Israel “safe.” (Iran will attend to sanctions by rattling “the allies.” Basic self-defense.) It’s beyond CENTOM, and all the other COMs.

RENT-USA-TROOPS.GOV

In the war of propaganda between the Iranian government and the Arab Uncle Tom regimes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan (Jordan actually is showing smarts by opening up to Hamas, which means the CIA is, too) -- in that war about Israel’s starvation of Gaza, the Iranians are happy to bring out the fact that the Gulf American protectorates are “bailing out” the U.S. from its financial dire strait -- while ignoring starving Palestinian Muslims and Arabs. But few numbers have been flashed. Last month, around the 22nd/23d, the Kuwaiti as-Siyasah (sp. I don’t feel like googling -- we need fiction to beat an overflow of efficiency) said that the harmful idiots have asked the Gulf countries to advance loans to the U.S. The numbers given were as follows:

Saudi Arabia: $120 billion
The U.A.E.: $70 billion
Qatar: $60 billion
Kuwait: $40 billion.

(Total: $290 billion.)

The quid pro quo? None was mentioned. But, at least for the Saudi ruling elite and its Israeli ally (which wasn’t asked to pay anything -- it’s piggybacking on its new mule, the Saudi ruling elite), my assessment is that it’ll require the harmful idiots to continue on with active involvement in Iraq. For two reasons:

(1) To balance Iranian conventional power. But that can be done with a rather simple trip wire in Kuwait, Qatar, and the U.A.E. , by placing me, a camel, and binoculars, there to monitor the desert. (I love deserts. Oh, I forgot, I'd need water, too. Or camel milk might do -- it's got Vitamin C, you know. And visiting female graduate students from Sweden to embed with me.)

And

(2) To remain involved in the development of the Iraqi armed forces. These should eventually take over from the Shia politicians and lock them up or simply lynch them (the nouveau Texas Christian hybrid way -- dragging them behind cars was the old exclusively Arab way) or cut off their heads in a public square (the Saudi way.) (The Kurds will retreat to their de facto state, armed to the teeth, in the north , so thrilled with all the money they made from the harmful idiots and the Gulf Arabs and are to make from the harmful idiots’ military regime in Iraq. )

Oh, those reactionary dreams never cease to entertain me. How boring life would be without them.