Ruminations of a Mad Wizard

Wow…This has to be one of the most vicious comedy bits the Daily Show has ever done on the religious factionalism of the region. It’s definitely a good watch…

All righty, time to get this blog rolling!  My last post was WAY too didactic and supported by evidence, let’s get into some dirt now.  Ends-Means doctrine…What does it mean to you?  Well, to me, it can come down to some very basic ethics.  Such as…If you were a police officer, and you had foreknowledge (in our ethical supposition, perfect foreknowledge) that a child you would encounter would very soon detonate an IED, killing over twenty people at a roadside cafe (say, in Baghdad), and you got there just in time to pull the trigger or not, would you do it?

This is the logical conclusion of the Ends-Means doctrine as written, the good of the many supersedes the good of the few (or the one!)  So, for a real-world example, Soldiers are fighting and dying steadily in Iraq to make sure that future generations may be free.  Or, possibly, you might believe they are over there fighting so that those little children, women, and men civilians (hah!) don’t swim over here with their Improvised explosve devices and detonate them here.

Well, first off, who just got elected in Iraq as the dominant party?  That’s right, the Shi’a.  Hmm, and who is the ruling faction in Iran, and dominant in Syria?  That’s right, you got it. Well, let’s look at the region, shall we, and think about when exactly this region was at peace.  Oh, wait, fucking never!  There have always been factions in this region (back to biblical times, which is the fucking problem), and every time the West has interfered, things got worse.  It would appear we just handed Iraq directly to Iran, instead of actually having an insurgency.  An “insurgency” would imply Iraqis against Iraqis, which does not seem to be the case.  This is more of a terror campaign, fought by nearby nations with vested interests in Iraq, seeking destabilization or perhaps a compatible regime to theirs.  The number of people who want democracy in Iraq appear to be the minority.

So what about our doctrine now?  At what point do we realize that sacrificing a generation of our young people into the gaping maw of factional civil war in Iraq may not be in America’s, or its’ troops, best interest?  Haven’t we been through this before in Vietnam?

Well, the Bush Administration (heretofore referred to as Bush and Co., or simply the Retard Pretend Messiah, depending on how pissed off I am at the time), say we must stay the course, and as the Iraqis stand up, we (meaning our troops) will stand down.  Yet just this week, he admitted that things are going real shitty and more troops will be sent in.  Hmmm.

What hope do we have that this will ever end?  Well, seeing as we just aided and abetted an election basically handing this country to the dominant faction in Iran, not very much, IMHO.  Ooo, after this blog entry I’m probably on Bush and Co.’s terrorist watch list.  Scary!

Anyway, from now on my entries will be shorter, and more geared towards current events, or specific issues, instead of long boring pontifications into the darker nature of man.  Well, okay, there might be a few of those.  But less than before.

Oh, and express your opinion all you want, as usual, but if you attempt to say I am wrong, and you try to debate and destroy my points, the rules of logical argument will be enforced.  This will be a normal caveat at the end of all my blog entries.  Opinion or debate, your choice.  I never attack opinions, or people’s right to them, but I will attempt to utterly destroy an argument that attempts to deconstruct my points.  With a friendly smile, as usual.