Every century, an handful of wackjobs and their irrational, totalitarian movements ooze their way to the top of some cesspool with access to deadly weapons and transportation and try to conquer the World. Perhaps it’s time to abandon the strategy of fighting humanity’s tyrano-plagues with the inevitable thousands-to-hundreds-of-millions of innocents slaughtered in the melees and just admit that the only way to save those millions is to crush these vermin in their nests with small teams of dedicated exterminators, before they destroy their own people and kill us all. Every time a cockroach appears, crush it.
~ ROLLOVER ~
“One of the tenets of the Muslim Brotherhood, which they cannot renounce, is the Islamic Caliphate and the ruling of the world. Yes. The day will come when we will be the masters of the world.”
*sigh*
And so, millions of people will be needlessly slaughtered in the 21st Century, too.
Can nobody come up with another insane reason to murder millions of human beings besides the tired old conquerer-of-the-word meme?
(What? Well, I meant besides the radical environmentalists; but they are soooo last-century.)
Then again,
maybe it’s just nature’s way of limiting the population.
Perhaps human DNA contains within it the architecture of its own antibodies.
In any case, not much we can do about it.
Okay, yeah, I know …
It’s just that I’m sooo tired of cosmological stupidity being treated as civilized discourse.
Instead of embedding reporters with troops,
embed hit teams with the reporters who cover these cockroaches.
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“Don’t start none, won’t be none.”
Whack him. Make it look like the Chinese did it.
I share your feelings completely. I would suggest, however, some possible reasons for your description.
1. It took a long time (…geologically maybe a million years…) which is impossible to comprehend as if it were a calender. However during that time, Homo Sapians rose to the top of the food chain. That qualifies *us* as the world`s primo PREDATOR!
2. If viewed in geologic time, despite human`s fantastic technological advances, we still approximate “Monkeys with Car Keys” or, “We are about 2 feet removed from living in caves”. Check back with me in another million years—
So far then, our line of predators has not evolved to the point where *force* is no longer favored as the primary or even unacceptable tactic for our perceived tribal/nation-state survival.
The more civilized of humans have a hard time imagining what other humans who are to varying degrees less civilized are doing/thinking, even if they are only 2 or 3 valleys away, let along on the other side of our planet. The truth is that of the 6 billion +/- 10(?) humans, only a tiny minority are close to lives and thoughts of people like us! Or we to them. I will use only one example of the evidence of this: In 1966, while serving in Vietnam, I saw some examples of Marines who had fallen in love with an attractive Vietnamese girl, born and raised in a village. I listened to our chaplin explaining to the lovestruck young men how difficult it would be for her to go with him back to America and be confronted with a civilization she had never experienced.
And the chaplin was right!!!!!
Enough! This is my view, so agree or disagree, m-kay? [...if the latter, than *I* demand a duel with swords... ;^) ]
DougM, you don’t read my posts do you? :P
Usually my insane reason for supporting the killing of millions of people is to save the sanity and lives of hundreds of millions.
I see it as a valid tradeoff.
If true freedom is to survive, it needs to be defended, but that doesn’t mean we are stuck with only reacting.
Along the line of ColJ’s comments – In 1971-72, I was installing bridge cranes in a 747 hangar in South Africa. The building was huge – enough room for two 747 stretch (never built) aircraft plus two maintenance shop buildings/offices as large as an average Holiday Inn, 250 ft clear span per bay and 90 ft to bottom of steel. I had a bunch of black men from the many tribes around southern Africa working for me, and one day, one of them asked me:
“Bossie, why building so large?”
“Well, it has to hold two airplanes.”
Pregnant pause, then he held up a hand with thumb and index finger about 1/4″ apart and says:
“But Bossie, airplane only this big.”
Up to that moment, I had’t realized that he had only seen airplanes way up in the sky, and actually thought they were some kind of man made flying insect. I was thunderstruck.
Later, when the tug pulled the first 747 into the hangar, I thought he would faint.
SAA promptly put up boarding stairs at the front and rear exits and opened the plane up to tours for Airways employees and contractors, as this was the first 747 ever to land in South Africa. They entered by the rear door, and after a long time, exited by the front.
I offered to take some of my tribesman on a tour as soon as the doors were open, and they declined in quavering voices, saying
“Nooooo Bossie, it is eating them,” because nobody who had entered had debarked from the plane yet.
It’s tough for primitives to cope when they bump hard up against the modern world, and it seems to me politicians, and for that matter anyone who hasn’t travelled much, have no concept of just how different, fearful, non-receptive and possibly hostile to change non-Western cultures can be.
Another story from Africa:
We stopped for a snack in a small town which looked like a set from a western movie, with a straight road going through the twenty wooden shacks with tin roofs that made up the town, and only only the road was paved – just barely. Everything else was dirt and dust. Just as we finished up and got ready to depart, everybody in the town started going down the road, running or biking in a stream of people. We headed out and caught up with the slowest ones and gradually made our way to their destination. There was an accident, and it had just happened. A car with passengers was in the ditch and a woman was lying on the road, and they were obviously in a bad way. The people from the town gathered around looking. We eased by slowly, stopping and starting, taking in the scene. I asked one of my local friends why they just stood there looking. He said, “They are waiting for them to die, so they can take their stuff.”
Compared to many places in Africa, there is no poverty in the USA, only lesser degrees of wealth.
Although he’s dressed in a suit, without oil, he’d be scrounging for camel turds to cook his evening meal.
Why do you suppose that the major antagonist in almost every form of writing is the “man who wants to take over the world”?
The so-called leaders over there have done such a bad job of running their own country, how the heck do they expect to “rule the world”?
Halfwit Higazi is such a nice-looking man. He could well be the local Social Science Professor at a major university.
COL Jerry (#2): “The truth is that of the 6 billion +/- 10(?) humans, only a tiny minority are close to lives and thoughts of people like us!”
Cool!!! We are all the 99%.
dnqdwg: (#4): Reminds me of the Cargo Cults in Polynesia back in the 40s – just after the War. (#5): see just above.
“Egyptian cleric” – isn’t Egypt supposed to be one of Obama’s foreign policy triumphs?
The lovely folks who have been destroying the old shrines in Timbuktu have the same goal.
While they’re not likely to ever succeed at conquering the world, they feel that small victories (like flying airplanes into buildings) can earn them some brownie points, too. That’s the real problem.
Oh, we’re not done with war yet.
And we’ll try to solve the problem technologically and biologically before we finally figure it out, and odds are both will go Horribly, Horribly Wrong.
Maybe Mo was jealous of Alex too?
“I blame it all on Alexander the Great. Ever since that little Macedonian twit decided that he had to conquer the whole world before he was old enough to shave, every fool with a sword and a decent pair of boots has sought to do the same.”
Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, Nobody Loves a Centurion
It’s worse, we actually have evolved a system where, by and large, the people who start wars don’t get to die in them.
Funny, most people killed in wars would tell you they don’t want to be there and don’t really understand why they are. Most people advocating, running, and safe from danger in wars are very certain.
Faulkner was right- the Senators and Kings and Presidents and Generals should be allowed to make the supreme sacrifice first, immediately.
firehand (10)
Excellent!
I’d only add that a World-conquering madman also needed access to a horse (my “transportation”). Danged if Alex was gonna walk all the way.
Col Jerry !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the brain-rush.
Like when CircleDs say they know what is in the hearts of the iSlamists; yet cannot comprehend folks from Alabama…
“Monkeys with Car Keys”
sooooooooo stealin’ that!