Yep, we all know that’s what it boils down to: we are fighting to preserve our way of life and therefore by definition anyone who opposes the war hates America and wants evil to triumph. We’ve long since passed the time when we were at war with a specified enemy, and had old-fashioned things like war objectives and a war strategy. They are such 20th century concepts.
No my friends we are waging endless war against Pure Evil. The trouble is this kind of war requires your unconditional support and you aren’t giving enough of it. Evil therefore has to be continually re- labelled to remind people of the nature of our conflict.
First we were making war on terrorists but there have been no confirmed sightings in the USA since 2002 and in Australia we’re reduced to locking up doctors with dodgy relos in another country. Not such a scary enemy really to justify all the killing and all the sheer anger and hatred that fuels the neo-con war machine.
Thus instead of terrorists we started to fight Islamo-fascists. Sure it’s meaningless gobbledook but it sounds very scary and who wants to be seen to be on the side of fascists? But even that hasn’t been enough apparently. Michael Medved, who has to be about as big a malevolent thick-headed smug dope as ever shilled for the Bush Administration, has now called a spade a spade:
Winning the War on Islamo-Nazism.
Offhand I can’t come up with a stupider rhetorical expression than that but I’m sure Mikey and his buds will think of some. Islamo-Khmer Rougists? A bit awkward. Islamo-Maoists? Oh hell, let’s just call them Islamo-cunts and be done with it.
Remember of course that Mikey and his buds have no argument whatsoever with the vast majority of good innocent Mussies and any suggestion that they are prejudiced is an ad hominem argument that reveals how empty your whole argument is and how slight a grasp you have of reality.
