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February 17, 2007

My Twiggy Dry Mind

Edwin A. Sumcad thinks Chalmers Johnson's new book, "Nemesis," is part of a Hate America campaign." "'Nemesis' a bushfire in winter is burning wild and wide," he writes. "It inflames twiggy dry minds and ignitable emotion to hate America." If you believe the book, he says, "You need a faith healer to restore your faith in America where life is a sprinkle of pepper and salt in the land of milk and honey."

We cannot have our cake and eat it too, the saying goes. If you enjoy your good life in America that you cannot have if you live elsewhere and yet hate America for providing you what you want, you are a walking contradiction and a talking paradox. It could be that you are suffering a certain kind of disorder otherwise known as “Nemesis Syndrome”.

I call it a hunger for the truth, but what do I know?

I must have a twiggy dry mind because I become inflamed with anger when dolts like Sumcad think that they can argue against the fact-based assertions about covert CIA operations by a former CIA analyst and patriot who is attempting to warn America about a serious danger by simply saying, "nuh-uh," and telling me if I don't like it here to go live somewhere else. It's so Kindergarden.

[T]his attack on America is saying that this country lives a dirty kind of life at the expense of humankind destroyed by American weapons used by client nations in different parts of the globe in their wars of aggression and self-defense.

With this rant calculated to strike the heart of the American public as a sentimental tearjerker, my sympathy goes to those who cannot stand their agony for living in America as victims of the evil “American Empire”.

To them, this I have to say with honesty, candor and humility: For their health and to avoid being called hypocritical ingrates, “Nemesis” attackers and their kind should leave the United States and live in total isolation but in peace, if not in Timbuktu, in some pristine islands in the Pacific where they can launch their complaints against this vicious “American Empire” that they think it is, for as long their lives last or hell freezes over, whichever comes first. There in God’s forsaken land, they can no longer be part of filthy-rich America they abhorred and condemned – the “American Empire” that gives them those publicized episodes of nightmare.

But here in the United States of America, country-bashers of their kind are discordant and terribly misplaced when they start attacking America. Basking in the sunshine of abundance and easy life in America, protected by the mightiest security never seen in anywhere in the world, and enjoying the kind of freedom, justice, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that only America could provide to those who seek them as a matter of life and death, a morally immaculate country-basher living in the comfort of this immoral “American Empire” cannot live with us and should not be found in the neighborhood for fear of being stoned to death as a noxious skunk roaming the yard or a strange, angry animal predator in the zoo.

Until they leave this country, we have this political pain-in-the-neck Green- House-effect-pollution – some kind of a “Nemesis” foul air we have to breathe 24 hours a day. It is definitely bad to our mental health, and bad for America.

The logic displayed by Sumcad will make your jaw hit the floor. Take this, for instance:

In the academe and the UN, I have stayed long enough to find out that there is no such thing as “illegal war” in the study of international law and law of nations when responding to an invasion or devastating surprise attack.

Sumcad is so ignorant he doesn't even realize we did not go to Iraq in response to an invasion or a devastating surprise attack. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed no danger to us, and it doesn't make me an America-hater to say that.

"Stupidity and ignorance rise to the fore when one is blinded by bias," Sumcad writes. He should have been looking in the mirror when he wrote it. Because Sumcad was stupid enough to write a critique of a book he clearly has not read. Had he read it, he would have never written this:

To survive the terror of Islamic jihad, this nation does not need to be loved by the enemy. It needs to be feared by terrorists and their left wing sympathizers.

Johnson shows very clearly how the U.S., through its covert activities, so inflamed the enemy that they overcame their fear of us and sought revenge. The American public has no idea what has been done in our name, and most of us were absolutely flabbergasted on 9/11 that anyone would want to attack us – that was why we bought the bullshit that we were attacked because the crazed leaders of a repressive religion hated our freedom.

Posted by Becky at February 17, 2007 02:01 PM