Obama's "We are not worthy!" Message to the World
I have an idea! In the spirit of President Obama's "Mea Culpa" message to the world for all of the horrors visited upon the benighted peoples outside our borders in recent years- ranging from dropping the atomic bomb to AIDS, to global warming to the recent global financial debacle; and as a measure of our contrition for being such an ignoble, morally bankrupt state let's invite the Taliban here as exchange students! At tax payer expense!
No! Even better! At hedge fund manager expense! The term "talib" does mean a person in need of something after all and is often used as a term for "student", especially in madrasas- those hallowed institutions of higher learning in the Muslim world. But to pave the way for this we need to disavow policies of the Bush administration; expunge, if possible! Perhaps if we cosset the Taliban, and show them how sorry we are for everything the USA has done in the last 25 years...
...from trying to help create a Palestinian state, to assisting "non-combattants" in war-torn Somalia (at the expense of 18 American lives), to intervening in the Balkans and preempting Serbian atrocities against Muslims, to the billions the USA spends every year in humanitarian aid. How shocking! No matter that the Muslim world is one of the biggest recipients of US foreign aid; no matter that the abuses perpetrated at Abu Ghraib pale in comparison to the ghastly fate awaiting any non-Muslim combatant caught by Holy Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan (humiliation vs. decapitation on video tape).
But I digress! If we show the Taliban- and Al Qaeda, for that matter that the Bush era is over; that we have a fashionable, "we are not worthy" president in office determined to make friend out of friend and foe alike! And that we are willing to engage with them, we will win them over! And then before you know it! We will make good Christians and Oprah loving TV addicts out of all of them! Gee! Maybe we can even get them interested in TV infomercials and sitcoms.
Imagine the marketing possibilities: "Desperate Pashtun Housewives"! And of course they could all use Snuggies in those cold, dank caves they hide out in .................(alright! "...in which they hide out.")
No! Even better! At hedge fund manager expense! The term "talib" does mean a person in need of something after all and is often used as a term for "student", especially in madrasas- those hallowed institutions of higher learning in the Muslim world. But to pave the way for this we need to disavow policies of the Bush administration; expunge, if possible! Perhaps if we cosset the Taliban, and show them how sorry we are for everything the USA has done in the last 25 years...
...from trying to help create a Palestinian state, to assisting "non-combattants" in war-torn Somalia (at the expense of 18 American lives), to intervening in the Balkans and preempting Serbian atrocities against Muslims, to the billions the USA spends every year in humanitarian aid. How shocking! No matter that the Muslim world is one of the biggest recipients of US foreign aid; no matter that the abuses perpetrated at Abu Ghraib pale in comparison to the ghastly fate awaiting any non-Muslim combatant caught by Holy Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan (humiliation vs. decapitation on video tape).
But I digress! If we show the Taliban- and Al Qaeda, for that matter that the Bush era is over; that we have a fashionable, "we are not worthy" president in office determined to make friend out of friend and foe alike! And that we are willing to engage with them, we will win them over! And then before you know it! We will make good Christians and Oprah loving TV addicts out of all of them! Gee! Maybe we can even get them interested in TV infomercials and sitcoms.
Imagine the marketing possibilities: "Desperate Pashtun Housewives"! And of course they could all use Snuggies in those cold, dank caves they hide out in .................(alright! "...in which they hide out.")
Labels: Al Qaeda, Bush, madrasa, mea culpa, Obama, Pashtun, Snuggies, Taliban, talibs
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