End of Days

 Is anyone other than myself well stricken with this controversial ordeal coming out of Florida? I’m talking about Pastor Terry Jones’ proclamation to burn twenty Qur¢ ans in conjunction with the 9^th anniversary of 9/11. I have to admit, I’m ambiguous about how I feel on this issue.

Then our turncoat president had to weigh in ¾ Lord I’m beginning to hate that man. He asked the pastor to reconsider, to pray and not to do this dastardly deed. That it would bring harm to our troops abroad in Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. Well, I have news for you Mr. President, you shouldn’t have sent them over there. You are the one putting them in danger, bringing death, and throwing them in harms way. Pastor Jones, albeit stupidly, is only trying to make a statement. The act of putting our troops and other Americans in Islamic countries in jeopardy has already been done ¾ by you! Haven’t you heard sir, Afghanistan is your war.

Let me take this opportunity to expound a little. I know this is going to sound somewhat insensitive, but, kicking political correctness to the curb, I think it needs to be said. Those people ¾ oops. Oh, what a cliché. I can already hear the liberal race baiters pounding their fists and shouting, “what does he mean, ‘those people?’” Anyway, Afghanis in particular, and most surrounding regions, have a 70% illiteracy rate. That means 70% of their entire population can’t read or write folks. What makes you think they can form an intelligent opinion based on anything other than what someone has told them to think or sheer animal instinct? I don’t believe they can. Pavlov may have been right vis-à-vis this group. Proof in point, they’re still rioting over this insignificant pastor’s comments and threat to burn the Qur¢ an.

Let’s see. “Hey, Mr. Afghani, why are you torching your neighborhood, destroying property, burning flags and beating people up?”

“Oh, there’s some American about 8,000 miles away from here that says he’s going to burn our beloved Qur¢ an. That’s an affront to Allah.”

I’m sorry, they wouldn’t really say that. Remember? 70% of them wouldn’t even know what “affront” means. But I have to admit, it sounds like Watts all over again. Tell me, am I being too sardonic?

Let me be perspicuous in my point. We are culpable folks, plain and simple. Sure, it’s our government that’s pushing ideology, but we’re letting them. It’s a facade that we’re fighting in the Middle East to keep the fighting out of our country. Rhetoric designed to be the red herring in order to push some plutocrat’s agenda…. Oh damnit Prole, there you go again with that conspiracy theory crap!

Okay, I’m digressing. We have a clime here on earth where its people have been fighting since time immemorial. I question, what makes anyone think when the world’s police, the US government, leave the area, malice, fighting and carnage won’t continue in the region? Please folks, we all know history repeats itself. And if not that, the question would be, even according to the mavens, who will fill the void? Does anyone think for a second that the strife and turmoil that has persisted for centuries will all of a sudden quit? Like I said, I’m not a Christian, but I believe even the bible refers to war, or the threat of war, shall consume the holy land until the end of days. Does anyone realize the Middle East is the holy land?

But back to the burning of the Qur¢ ans. I’m thrilled although befuddled by the cessation of the burning. I’m confused and disturbed by the vitriol, animosity and rancor that has befallen our brethren in my short tenure here on earth. I look around towards the end of my hoary stint and see we have digressed as a people ¾ I had such high hopes. I was once a humanitarian and had great expectations of mankind, which has fallen by the wayside leaving little but misanthropy.