DOING something

All that bible stuff, and now some Gilgamesh stuff.  I don't doubt they say something, but I don't care what they say.  You know how it is sometimes when you have a friend who has seen some movie which you have no intention of seeing and they settle into the bar stool next to you and proceed to tell you all the details and no matter how you try to change the subject they won't stop until they have told every single boring detail?  Or how about this, what if i proceeded to write down the plot of Catch 22 in this post?

Suicide is a sin in the muslim religion.  The bombers excuse is that they are martyrs for a greater cause.  Their cause could be the worldwide caliphate, or maybe the caliphate with all the territories that it controlled at its height, or maybe death to the Sunnis/Shiites depending on which they are, or maybe death to the Americans, or maybe death to some local leader.  But what it turns out to be is death to whoever happens to be in the same place when they blow themselves up, and it's hard to see how that advances any cause.

I don't think we were that involved in Vietnam at the time you were in the army.  I don't remember ever hearing anything about harassment when I was in ROTC, but there was kind of a big thing when we got involved in Vietnam that we were fighting a guerrilla war, and it was like, oh my goodness we don't know how to fight this kind of war, although that is the kind of war we fought to drive out the Brits.

As you will recall we did not fight that guerrilla war very effectively.  Well one thing was that we had that awful South Vietnamese army, and surely the people there did not want to be ruled by that crappy South Vietnamese government.  We could have shuffled them aside and just said okay then you will be ruled by us, the freedom loving people of the United States of America.  And even if we were the fine upstanding people we think we are, people would always rather be oppressed by their own people than by strangers.

And we are not really the fine upstanding people we think we are, nobody is.  If we were ruling them, we would kind of fuck with them, we would give them the short end of the stick in any deal like people with power over others always do.

Back to the terrorists, why do they do the things they do, even though they know it won't achieve their ends.  I think it's because people want to DO things.  They don't want to sit around and argue all day. 

Same like us I guess, after this Paris thing we want to DO something.  But we are a little more educated, we know that there isn't much we can really do, outside of sending in troops, which would cost a lot of money and kill a lot of our people, and when it is all done, what do we do?  Say ok guys, I guess we taught you a lesson, now go ahead and do whatever you can with the stone age country we've left you with?  The first thing they will do is set up the Son of ISIS. 

You know that 30 virgins thing, I haven't done a lot of research into it, but I am pretty sure that only some muslims believe that, the way only some Christians believe in a specific theory of the resurrection. 

I hate to take guidance from fb, but I saw something posted there last night, possibly by your sister, that i think makes a good point.  There is a photo of Ku Klux Klan guys next to a photo of ISIS guys and the caption is We don't judge Christians by these guys, why do we judge Muslims by these other guys?