<In essence, McCarthy was right.>
Here's the road we are on:
1. the U.S. and allies continue to occupy Muslim territory, continue to bully and kill them, trying to force their capitulation.
2. More and more Muslim nations, and then sub-national organizations, acquire nuclear weapons.
3. they use them against the U.S., either in our homeland, or against our allies, or in our overseas Empire.
4. The level of fear in the U.S. increases vastly from today's level.
5. McCarthy, and his methods, are re-habilitated, with Muslims assigned the role Communists had in the Cold War.
6. Anyone in the U.S. who advocates compromise, multilateralism, respect for other nation's sovereignty, listening to the issues raised by Muslims, any non-violent solution to any foreign policy problem, they are all silenced. Anyone who criticizes Israel is branded as anti-Semitic. The Peace movement is labelled as subversives, traitors, weaklings.
We got a little hint of this, during the months from right before Regime Change in Iraq, to right after. The government got away with blatant Orwellian NewSpeak. The "independant" press, and the "opposition" party, who call themselves "Democrats", were totally silent, or repeated the lies of the Administration. They were scared and silent.
You are an Authoritarian, who believes in using Fear and Force to unify the nation against the Others. You reject all the ideas of the Enlightenment. You pretend to be defending the country, while attacking the principles it was founded on. You are the real Enemy Within. |
