Heroes from Hell

Seems the balance of the solar system has changed.  Of course it hasn’t changed physically, but we will have to accept some newly named, very cold, very distant objects as planets and we will have to continue to accept erratic little Pluto as a legitimate planet despite its strange orbit.

Of course the balance in the Middle East has changed in the last day or so as well.  We still get to call Israel a legitimate country, but have to watch where we say it lest we have our heads sawn off with a bread knife.  We may have to accept a new breed of country as well: Hezbollahland, for instance, that wholly owned subsidiary of Iran and formerly known as Lebanon.

By using that occasionally independent country as a hostage, Hezbollah managed to produce enough carnage that Israel agreed to pull out in exchange for a cease fire.  There was no winner, only losers of various degrees; the biggest loser by far being Lebanon.  Of course the principle of doublethink allows that to be described as a resounding victory for the dogs of Allah and it appears that the barbarians who murdered Lebanon will, with the help of Iran, become the strongest factor in Lebanon’s future.

Iran is pumping money into Hezbollahland as fast as Americans pump gas into their toy trucks.  Those who wail about their tax money going to Israel somehow seem to forget the colossal sums they pay to oil producers, who use it to make the world a far worse place; running hate schools, terrorist training camps and generally turning out haters of the West willing to kill us all, every one.  

The solar system may seem bigger today, but the world seems smaller and our future narrower. Our grandchildren’s future will have to include either massive nuclear destruction or a grand caliphate in Tehran; a Wahabbist empire flooding the world with hate and murder and war while the US sinks into debt and poverty.

So go ahead – keep painting them as freedom fighters, Robin Hood heroes and victims of Israeli aggression and welcome to the new world order.