The American culture is such that it can make a joke out of
any situation, and the people will laugh at it – but not always. There are
times when the occasion is so solemn you can neither think of it as funny nor
seek to trivialize it by turning it into a moment of cheap humor. Those who
make a living producing the comedy that adds to the American culture and
enriches it understand this reality, and they adhere to an unwritten code that
has kept them from crossing the line between what is acceptable and what is
not. But things are changing.
Things are changing in a way that was totally unexpected not
long ago. It is that a humor – a kind of sick humor is now coming not from the
professional humorists who still restrain themselves but from people who came
close to being a casualty in a serious situation but were lucky enough to
escape a dire fate. The sickening part is that some of these people have
started to cash in on their experience by turning it into a farcical moment to
be laughed at. They are doing so in complete disregard of the other people:
those who perished, those who suffered and may have recovered, and those who
still suffer and may continue to suffer to the end of their days.
One of the would-be comedians is Tom Cotton, a character
recently elected to represent an Arkansas
district in the Federal House of Representatives. He was a soldier in Iraq who must
have had a cushy job because he never encountered the enemy, never saw actual
combat and was never injured. He is now back in America doing two unexpected
things. First, he is doing the sort of thing that the Jewish lobby used to do;
the thing by which the lobby trivialized the Holocaust. Second, he is doing the
sort of thing that the Israeli army used to do; the thing by which it acquired
the image of an army of cold blood killers and of male bimbos.
Tom Cotton must love doing this sort of things because he
has done it yet again. He wrote an article under the title: “Hagel's Historical
Delusions” and had it published on January 19, 2013 in the National Review
Online. He starts the article with this statement: “...Chuck Schumer … implying
[Hagel] to be … massively ignorant of history...” And so you ask: What's he
beefing about? And he tells you what that is. He says this: “[Hagel] basically
said, look, the bottom line is the world has changed since 2005, '06, and '07. Iran is … more
militant [now] than it was then.” And you are puzzled that he should beef about
something like this.
So you ask if there is humor in trivializing something as
serious as this. You think about it, and all you can tell is that there is no
hard hitting humor in it but maybe a light one – enough perhaps to make people
smile, or chuckle a little. It is that when it comes to being massively
ignorant about history, Tom Cotton has shown to be the most massive of them
all. He did so when he forgot – or was being deliberately ignorant of his own
history. This would be the history which pertains to the expression of an
opinion on how the world is changing, and what the consequences of that change
may be.
Look what happened here: At some point near the end of the
Twentieth Century, a cocky young Tom Cotton wrote an article and had it
published. It was an article in which he attacked the use of the internet in
the classroom. Shown how wrong he was by the passage of time, Cotton refused to
admit he was fundamentally mistaken about the subject, but acknowledged that he
has undergone a change of heart and a change of mind on the matter.
To this end, he posited that the world has changed and so
did the internet. He also said it is for this reason and this reason only that
he now believes the internet is okay to have in the classroom. Well, we can
only say it is too bad for the Cotton to have chosen being so massively
ignorant of his own history before attacking Chuck Hagel's treatment of
history. He made a fool of himself in the process, and he knitted a story that
shows the historical delusions he talked about to have been not those of Hagel
but his own. Laughter please.
While there may be humor in this, there can be no humor in
another stance that Tom Cotton has taken. Look at this passage: “Iran
was smuggling a ... roadside bomb into Iraq … To be fair, though, perhaps Mr.
Hagel didn’t think these acts of war made Iran dangerous ... After all, he
voted in 2007 against designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist
organization.” To explain how staggering this is to an international audience,
I must say something that is taboo here in North America
but is not in the rest of the world where this sort of stance is mentioned more
often and more solemnly than here.
When you go to war, you don't expect the enemy to treat you
with courtesy. You try to kill him before he kills you because if you don't,
you end up dead and he goes home to his loved ones. The enterprise called war
must be as frightening to him as it is to you. Thus, the one thing you should
never say is that you were a good soldier facing him, but he was a terrorist
facing you. If and when you talk like this, the world will say about you what
is no longer uttered in North America . It will
call you a faget while in North America , they
may only call you a male bimbo in a soldier's uniform.
This idea about “us” being soldiers, and “them” being
terrorists was put forward by the Judeo-Israeli league for the poison of the
American mind and the American culture. It all started when the world began to
see the extent of the terror that the heavily armed Israeli soldiers and the
Jewish settlers were committing against the unarmed civilian population of Palestine . To legitimize
Jewish terrorism and delegitimize the Palestinian resistance to occupation, the
Jewish propaganda machine in America
first attacked the Palestinians by recruiting people who stood in front of the
cameras and sniveled: “They throw stones at our soooldiers, oh pity me, pity
meee.”
When they did not get enough pity from a public that had it
up to here with Jewish self pity, constant whining and forever exacting something
for nothing, the Jewish propaganda machine upped the ante in that it started to
describe the Israeli soldiers of occupation as being “just kids” barely 18
years of age who should never see a stone thrown at them even when they shoot
to kill Palestinian babies in the arms of their mothers, and kill the mothers
too.
When that kind of propaganda failed to make the people of America run in
the streets to demand justice for the Israelis and punishment for the
Palestinians, the Jewish lobby got into the act. It blackmailed the prostitutes
that populate the Congress as well as their male counterparts, the bimbos of
that same institution.
They all got together and passed resolution after resolution
in favor of Israel
and all the Jewish causes. Among these was a resolution to the effect that the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps was henceforth regarded as being a
terrorist organization. The prostitutes and the male bimbos signed it; the real
men and real women refrained. Now, Tom Cotton is whining that the outcome was
not unanimous.
If America
is to be respected again in the world, it will have to have real men and real
women at the helm governing it. No longer can it afford to send GIs “to kick
asses” then complain they were terrorized by an enemy that refused to treat
them with courtesy. This is not what real GIs expect; it is what the world sees
as being the wish of a faget right out the mold of a Tom Cotton.
I will only say to him: Shut up, you male bimbo. Just shut
up and spare your country further embarrassment.
The world will not apologize for its views and neither will
I for mine.