1-2 February 2007

Well, I am undone. I have been meditating on a whole series of events that have been occurring in Iraq and the USA, as well as in Iran. I know that there are events and situations involving all sorts of tragedies and concerns around the world, in countries that have little concern with the USA or events that directly engage our concern and interests. I have often heard what friends and acquaintances have expressed about Americans and our media, that we act as if the world revolves around us and we are woefully ignorant of the plight and conditions of people around the world. While I think that the accusation is often unfair, and our awareness of the world is probably not much different from that of people in other nations, I understand it.

But the more that an observer examines the cause-effect of the war in which America finds itself, in Iraq and Afghanistan, he begins to see that the center of the world is rapidly beginning to form at two cities central to all human experience: Babylon and its modern successor, Baghdad, and Jerusalem. The first city of men and the city of God; strange, mighty strange indeed.

So, here we are, 50 people dying today in a Shiite market place from two sick Al Qaeda Sunni suicide bombers, the Iranians continuing their nuclear buildup, the New York Times saying that the Bush administration is bullying Iran toward war for its nuclear power-weapons program, as if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is some kind of abused puppy. The U.S. Senate is debating, on the verge of joining the House of Representatives in a resolution that will tell George Bush that his increase of American troops and change of tactics will fail, and that the U.S. armed forces have only six months to successfully transfer control of all Iraq to the fledgling government; which is the signal to our enemies of how little time they need to hang on to the fight before they can begin to see victory. Al Qaeda has openly declared that Al Anbar province, in American-occupied territory, is a de facto Islamist stronghold, employing Sharia law on its people.

The battle between Hamas and Fatah over Gaza in Palestine is not a sideshow, either. It is the battle to determine who will have the pleasure of attacking Israel, along with Hezbollah in Lebanon and elsewhere. And on top of that, Al Qaeda, which is actually supported in Iran through the son of Osama bin Laden himself, in a mansion paid for by the Iranian government from which he carries out field instructions from Zawahiri to bring the battle to Iraq and other places in the world.

We are asleep, and even while bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri's field lieutenant in the Americas, G. Adnan Shukrijumah, makes his plans and preparations for the "American Hiroshima" attack on the cities of New York, Washington, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Houston, Boston, and Atlanta, probably later this year with WMD (chemical and suitcase nuclear), we go on as if nothing will change. The Democrats are interested in political conquest and the Republicans in maintaining their privileges and more congressional benefits through earmarks and contracts for their constituents. No one has any perspective, no vision.

And then we have the words of a traitor like Washington Post columnist William Arkin, who, in his column yesterday, responded to NBC stories of frustrated soldiers in Iraq, justly demanding that Americans support them and their mission, by calling them "mercenaries" and that they should just shut up and remember they perform at the pleasure of the American civilian public. He had the nerve to say that they are paid well and their families cared for and given "obscene" benefits, like the ability to contact their families by e-mail and let them know that they are still alive after watching their buddies blown to bits by IEDs. The goddamned traitor! The feckless coward and communist pig! If I was the veteran, and father of a boy laying in a bed in Walter Reed Hospital, in rehab from losing a leg in a firefight in Baquoba or Najaf, and I read that column, I'll not be able to tell you what I would do in this column. But I promise you this, I'm perfectly at peace before God imagining what I would do, and hoping someone out there will, and that such a person never gets caught.

The First Amendment is not absolute, not for traitors. I've had it, on a lot of levels.

For the people I am leaving behind, in the set of relationships I am now severing, I will declare this.

I want this war. I look forward to it. I hope that I get to be a part of America's victory over Islam, as a participant, not just an observer. It will break the power of Islam, ensuring that Christianity's spread is complete, as it was destined to be. This is one time that war in the Name of God is good, right, proper, and blessed by Jesus Christ. My sentiments are no doubt bizarre and grotesque to you, but a day of fire is coming. A day unlike any that this country, this civilization has ever seen. And on that day, you will understand why a Christian man like me, who believes in a God who loves everyone in every land, and who sent His Son to die for the sins of the whole world, even the most wretched, would say such things. May God have mercy on us, for we shall surely need it. We have greatly sinned as a nation, with the blood of unborn children and that of many other sins piling high as heaven before a holy God. It will be God's mercy indeed, that it will not be a judgment that will be totally destructive of our cities. But believe me, He will get our attention. It's just sad that so many must die before we finally heed Him and remember what He intended when He established this country.

---Belisarius II---