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"Read All About It In The Idler"

11 April 2002

As the Mid-East turmoil continues with yet another suicide bombing, new evidence emerges of Saudi complicity in the Intifada - and American incompetence in our handling of an uncontrollable situation.

Let us examine the latest:

1) "American foreign policy is being driven by Saddam Hussein." That was former Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu yesterday speaking in New York. He is right: the Bush Administration is so consumed with removing Saddam's regime from power that they are willing to bulldoze over Ariel Sharon and meet with the murderer Yassir Arafat in order to 'quiet' things down. The Bush Administration's goal? Garner enough so-called 'moderate' Arab support for the coming war against Iraq.

But things are not going well. The entire Arab world is in a tizzy over Israel's defense of itself. The more Israel tries to clean out the poisonous nests of terrorists - the exact same thing we are still doing in Afghanistan - the more the Arab world talks of 'war.'

2) While Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, during his daily briefings, continually decries Iraq's payments to suicide bombers and their families, he professes ignorance of exact same policy from the Saudis. And these are our "allies"? (see http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=09042002-050314-4015r)

It turns out that the Saudi Arabian government has set aside a whopping $50 million for payments to suicide bombers and their families - calling them "victims" of this war. It is a war, by the way, that the Arafat-led radicals started in September 2000 in order to goose even more concessions out of the Barak government in Israel and the desperate-for-a-legacy lame-duck Clinton Administration in Washington.

Hamas has followed suit - also financed by so-called 'moderates' - and helped to train and dispatch more suicide bombers into Israel.

American tolerance of Saudi hypocrisy is breathtaking!

While we prepare to remove Saddam, the Saudi representative to the Arab League Summit in Beirut two weeks ago publicly kisses the Iraqi representative in a show of solidarity. This was a huge slap in the faces of G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

3) As Secretary of State Colin Powell toured the Sunday morning TV talking head shows, he made the most amazing comment:"Innocent Palestinian suicide bombers are dying" because no reconciliation can be reached.

If a Trent Lott or Tom Delay had made that statement the national news media would eviscerate him. But Colin Powell is the darling of the Politically Correct crowd and his mistakes are glossed over with total impunity.

"Innocent suicide bombers"? How can that be?

Well, what he is saying is that the conflict is taking "innocent" Palestinians and turning them into suicide bombers.

But the truth is that it is Arafat, Hamas, Al Qaeda and other radical groups that prey upon the young and malleable children and literally brainwash them from infancy to make them lethal human bombs - all under the umbrella of a 'fundamentalist interpretation' of the Koran.

Please note there are no 75-year old "suicide bombers." Why not? Perhaps because they can't be as easily manipulated, terrorized and browbeaten. And yet, when you think of it, an old man has lived his life. Why wouldn't he prefer to go out a martyr and thus save a young life from such a fate?

The answer is simple: these people live under as repressive a system as did the citizens of the Soviet Union. In such a dictatorship, you can't "decide" to become a "suicide bomber." That decision is made for you - and neither you nor your family even have the right to object. That is life in such an awful system.

As we learn more about the treachery of the Saudis, we can see that the so-called widespread anti-Americanism of the Muslim world is a re-directed resentment by most Muslims for the poverty, inequality and squalor they live under.

But the United States has nothing to do with that deplorable situation; their own governments are guilty of betraying their people - or 'subjects.' And these quasi-dictatorships - no friends of free press, free speech or democracy - control the media and use it to channel the popular anger away from themselves onto the USA.

What a mess!

And it is a mess we need to avoid. Yes, 'regime change' is a wonderful goal. But in which Muslim nation? Why Iraq and not Saudia Arabia?

Let's face it: most of those people - with the exception of the only democracy in the region, Israel - and not civilized. They are living in the Stone Ages. And until they take the situation into their own hands - as we did in 1776 - and demand individual human rights, they are hopeless.

We need to defend democracy and Israel. Other than that, we need to side with those who want what God has already blessed us with: freedom, liberty, free speech, democracy and the Power of the People over the government.

Only when those values are accepted in the Middle East can any real peace ever ensue.