(I'm Going) With the Terrorists By Larry Sakin

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January 13, 2007

With the Terrorists

By Larry Sakin

About five years ago, President Bush gave Americans a choice: we could either be with him or with the terrorists. It was an awful coercion of democratic principle but hey- we all knew back then that Bush could hardly spell democracy much less define it.

The same options are still on the table today and I have to say, sorry Mr. Bush, but I gotta go with the terrorists. It isn't because I don't love my country (I do), or because of nihilistic tendencies. It's because I believe that when a country like ours so blatantly rapes the rest of the world with a dick engorged with power and greed, we deserve to be clobbered by insurgents with RPG's.

The real problem I see is that terrorists aren't organizing fast enough. What is needed is a series of terrorist attacks against American interests in every corner of the world- maybe on 'President's Day'. That would be an extremely powerful metaphor that no one in the international media could ignore....

Julius Caesar is credited with the line "to the victor the spoils." I think that's just dandy. President Bush is losing the battle for Iraq and the larger war on terrorism for the sake of some contracts for oil producers who can't wait to sink their canines into the oilfields of Kirkuk. My hope is that the advancing terrorist brigades of the Near East can take advantage of their victory, and start picking off oil executives from Exxon/Mobile, BP, and British Shell as soon as the ink on those contracts is dry.

And it might be good that the United States gets humbled by losing another war of choice to people who are sick to death of foreign invaders occupying their countries and sacking their way of life. America operates better as a nation after it has been taken to the woodshed; and the time seems ripe again.

For all those reasons, and just the fact that I hate your smug little admissions of 'mistakes being made', I have to side against you, Mr. President. Don't take it personally. God knows you must be used to it by now.



Authors Website: www.mytown.ca/sakin

Authors Bio: Larry Sakin is a former non-profit medical organization executive and music producer. His writing can be found on Mytown.ca, Blogcritics, OpEd News, The People's Voice, Craig's List and The Progressive magazine. He also advocates for literacy and directs The Progressive Principles Project, and is a National Coordinator for the DFA offshoot group WeDemocrats.


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