Theos-Talk Archives (October 2002 Message tt00159)

--- In theos-talk@y..., Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> And how has George Bush been responsible for the overpopulation of
> kangaroos?

He is responsible for everything. I was told by a Canadian fellow 
some time ago that if it were not for George Bush the US would not 
exist and that if the US did not exist all the evil in the entire 
world would disappear and we would find ourselves smack in the middle 
of the millennium. He did not raise his voice, but his face turned 
red as a beet, indicating that this is a subject he feels very 
strongly about. He is quite convinced that the world is a community 
of saints except for the perfidious US.

Since then I have discovered talking to people and reading that views 
similar to this are held generally throughout the world. In the 
Middle East it is well known that the CIA bombed the World Trade 
Center, that Osama bin Laden is a generous and peaceful man who has 
been slandered, and that the US is responsible for the Arab Israeli 
conflict. In fairness to them, they seem to see realistically that 
the Zionists are playing a hand in that one as well. Indonesians 
will not soon forget that the bombings in Bali were the work of the 
CIA in their campaign against Islam. It is well known in Asia that 
the HIV virus was genetically engineered in the US and that the 
Japanese prior to 1945 were a peaceful people who were cynically 
manipulated by Americans into an unwanted war with China and bombing 
Pearl Harbor. They did not want to do that. It is very well 
understood in Europe that poverty in Africa is not the fault of 
corrupt governments there, nor is it caused by mismanagement or 
indigenous civil wars, nor is it the fault of their former colonial 
masters, who once occupied the continent and could do whatever they 
wanted with it. It is the fault of the US, which for unexplained 
reason decided to create a hell there. An Irish rock star is now 
telling us that a bungled foreign aid program, which he himself 
admits was a disastrous failure, needs to resume even though no 
serious person believes any good result would come of it. Current 
starvation in Zambia is caused paradoxically by the cynical decision 
of the US to send food aid, which the Zambian government has wisely 
decided to deny its people. (I am not making this up. I listened to 
a commentary recently on how cynical it is to feed starving people.) 
HIV in South Africa is not the result of irresponsible behavior on 
the part of the people who live there, nor is it the result of the SA 
government's policy of promoting superstition in lieu of scientific 
fact regarding the disease. To blame it on irresponsible behavior 
would be to criticize their great culture, and that is politically 
incorrect. Since it is not the fault of anyone in South Africa 
(despite the fact the disease is sexually transmitted) the fault must 
lie elsewhere. The logic there is impeccable, since someone must be 
at fault here. If the people who are busy aggressively infecting one 
another are not to blame, who is?

Europeans will tell you that this godlike power over the rest of the 
world is wielded by an incredibly stupid and unsophisticated people 
who have a massive inferiority complex with respect to their betters 
and who cover that up with an insufferable arrogance. No one seems 
to be able to explain how such an extraordinarily incompetent crowd 
could achieve the omnipotent domination of superior races which 
everyone knows is the fons et origo of all the world's problems. No 
one seems to be able to explain how such a superior people as they 
know themselves to be could exhibit the kind og inferior mentality 
necessary to believe anything that illogical.

Maybe my mind was perverted by too many years studying philosophy and 
too much training in logical thinking, but I am rather skeptical of 
this whole world view. My perception is that the US government has 
watched Fidel Castro thumb his nose at them since 1959. That despite 
the fact that Cuba is closer to Florida than Louisiana is. It is 
hard to deny this, since it is historical fact. The US does not run 
Cuba, but a handful of foreigners in Miami who originated in Cuba do 
seem to run the US. Far from being able to make and break kings with 
the mere typing of a memo, the government were completely helpless 
while a crowd of totally unarmed students ransacked their embassy in 
Teheran in 1979 and held their diplomats hostage for more than a 
year. If Colin Powell tries to get a Mideast peace deal, despite the 
fact that he rules the Muddle East as everyone knows, Ariel Sharon 
snaps his fingers, AIPAC swings into action, and the Bush 
administration does whatever Sharon tells them to do. That despite 
the fact that the entire population of "Israel" is about that of a 
mid sized city. Talking about the tail wagging the dog! Now we see 
George Bush frothing at the mouth because he wants to control Iraqi 
oil, and Saddam Hussein, whom Bush's father tried unsuccessfully to 
topple, is stronger than ever. He seems to be an Arab Castro.

I submit that not only is there no one running the world, but that 
there is in fact no one running the United States. How either of 
them keep going is a total mystery to me. Those who still need to 
find some person to blame all the world's evil on can accept reality 
and still fulfill their need by looking at ancient superstition. In 
ancient times everyone blamed things on a nonexistent guy named 
Satan, which by the way is not a man's name but is merely a Hebrew 
word translated variously as "apostate" or "adversary." I was told 
by a lawyer one time that a Fundamentalist Christian actually brought 
suit against Satan and his fallen angels in federal court some years 
ago. The judge listened politely to the plaintiff's harangue, but 
dismissed the case on the grounds that the defendant could not be 
located and served properly with a subpoena. If Satan exists and he 
really is responsible for absolutely everything someone somewhere 
doesn't like, he is a busy devil.

But then nobody ever said his job would be easy.