toleration does not extend to the intolerant

if I'm full of shit then I want to know, because this is one of the more
regressive things I've written in a while. I concede my lack of education,
having dropped out of community college after mild traumatic brain injuries
courtesy of Iraqi militants
American military technology is not unique beyond quantity. Neither is
American democracy besides the electorate's (and their representatives')
willingness to deploy the military in the face of its misuses, defeats, and
abused personnel. Every time the US uses force, including the Revolution and
the Second World War, I have contention with it. The US having so much
materiel and so many people to use it allows it to inflict circumstances of
total war on targets without causing its populace to feel like it is at total
war. Having fairly high taxes but directing them to the military-industrial
complex instead of running a functional social democracy, which both Democrats
and Republicans lament, enables this method. The lower quality of life, being
the first world of the third world, has allowed the US to be in a perpetual
state of war since the late 1980s
-- in making a contentious claim like that, I'd better be ready to present
evidence. For brevity's sake, other wars aside: the Revolution wasn't even
bourgeoisie in nature, but to preserve slavery. WWII wasn't against Hitler but
a proxy against Stalin, since the USSR was obviously going to defeat Fascist
Germany. It was to preserve whatever European territory possible from
Communism upon termination of hostilities. What's more, use of The Bomb on
Japan was useless, since Imperial Japan surrendered as a function of the Soviet
takeover of Sakhalin Island -I am a materialist and therefore an atheist, but not much of an
antitheist. I avoid Islamophobia because that tends to be motivated by antiArab sentiment. Friends accuse me of feeling this way, maybe jocularly,
because of 14 months in Iraq, but that place was pretty secular when I was
there. Their accusation offends me, but I can take it. I'm almost 30, after
all
recent events motivate me to post some thoughts
I do view Islam as a serious existential threat, abortion clinic
comparisons with Christians, for example, paling in comparison. It occupies
the position Catholicism did about 100 years ago: a large political power, with
serious money, and a lot of extremist followers who are ready to be violent as
a function of both oppression at the hands of imperialism, and their bullshit
religion making them neurotic. All religions are backwards nonsense and the
response to them is education, not carpet bombing, but there's a closer
analysis to be done. Catholics mostly moved from continental Europe to the
States. Muslims are mostly moving from Southwest Asia and Northern Africa to
Continental Europe. Catholics took time learning English in the States, and it
will take Muslims time to learn the local languages. The liturgical languages,
Latin and Arabic, are both alienating. Immigrants tend to occupy easy to
deride and exploit lower economic positions.
Too many progressives are quick to criticize all religions but protect
Islam. Their motivation is superb, the avoidance of anti-Arab racism, but
there are many white and Southeast Asian Muslims, like my Bengali neurologist.
All of you should take the case of Mohammad Najibullah as a disturbing warning.
He thought he was safe from Taliban and they dragged him behind a truck like it
was the 90s in Wyoming and he was gay, only after castrating him and his
brother. The US' strong Pimp Hand, motivated by Republicans being idiots, has
empowered these forces in some places but crushed them in others
The formative experiences of my youth were 10 months in
Death in 2005 and 2006, then 4 months in Baghdad in 2008 and
Department bureaucrat. I had a lot of guilt for a long time
in a war of aggression, which is a war crime. Of late, I've
opposing bad acts already in the works

The Triangle of
2009 as a Defense
from participating
wondered if I was