Those paintings are incredible. I wonder if anyone is painting similar paintings of WTC and the Pentagon? Representational art seems to never quite go out of style.
Can't imagine killing Mexicans or Canadians about our borders - we did do it, though not in the 20th century.
I'd like to go see the Pentagon, maybe take some photographs. I told my husband I wanted a piece of the wall, that I would keep it with my piece of the Berlin Wall, and he said that was ghoulish and in poor taste. Tearing down the Berlin Wall was a symbol of victory.
I know we are going to win.
These guys are just ordinary malcontents, who can't make it in their own country. Revolutions are never started by the "haves", but they are also never started by the "have nots." They are started by the "almost haves," the ones who feel that they deserve power but can't get it by peaceful means.
Bin Laden wants power but he can't get it by peaceful means. He's shut out of the power structures, so he allies with others who are shut out of their power structures. Their ultimate goal isn't getting rid of us, it's getting rid of our influence in their countries so they can take over and achieve the power they can't achieve by peaceful means.
But they simultaneously suffer from cognitive dissonance, and an inability to tolerate ambiguity. Bin Laden promises them certainty, which soothes their inability to tolerate ambiguity. But the certainty he promises them is inconsistent with their inner drives - as the story below demonstrates.
>>FBI Investigates Possible Fla. Links
MIAMI (AP) - Three men spewed anti-American sentiments in a bar and talked of impending bloodshed the night before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a Daytona Beach strip club manager interviewed by the FBI (news - web sites) said Thursday.
``They were talking about what a bad place America is. They said 'Wait 'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed,''' said John Kap, manager of the Pink Pony and Red Eyed Jack's Sports Bar. Kap said they made the claims to a bartender and a patron.
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Kap said he told FBI investigators the men in his bar spent $200 to $300 apiece on lap dances and drinks, paying with credit cards. Kap said he gave the FBI credit card receipts, photocopied driver's licenses, a business card left by one man and a copy of the Quran that was left at the bar.<<
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Going to a strip club to drink alcohol and have lap dances? How Western. How decadent. How American. What would bin Laden say?
But killing Americans for Allah wipes all that away.
America is bad because they want to drink American alcohol, watch American sport on TV, and screw American women. Most American women don't want anything to do with Arab men, who somehow always have several wives back in the old country they never mentioned. |
