The Latest Meme Circulated by the Supine 4th Estate

The 4th estate betrayed American democracy long ago. Observing its mendacity in action can be a form of entertainment, though quite distasteful. Even so, it is difficult to know what else to do. When someone routinely insults your intelligence, it is a sign that he (and not you) is the imbecile. Smart people know better.

Read FAIR's blog on the latest intelligence-insulting meme circulated by the idiocracy of the 4th estate: Obama as "reluctant warrior."

Then do what every thinking individual must do in the Age of Rampant Orwellian Newspeak: take note of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and compare that to the evidence. Then measure the distance between the two.

A Few Facts Concerning the Last Great Superpower and a Few Questions Those Facts Engender

Since 1991, the United States has been engaged in an undeclared war with Iraq.

Approximately 169,000 square miles, Iraq is roughly the size of the state of Washington (172,000 square miles).

But it is crowded: in 2012, the population of Iraq was roughly 33.7 million souls--slightly less populous than the state of California (in 2012, roughly 36.7 million souls).

The GNI per capita in 2011 for Iraqis (in U.S. dollars): $2,640.00
The GNI per capita in 2011 for Americans (also in U.S. dollars): $50,860.00

And yet, I repeat: since 1991, the United States has been engaged in an undeclared war with Iraq.

What is this war (and, I repeat, since Congress ceded its Constitutional control over the war-making powers to the Executive Branch after the Second World War, it is an undeclared war) all about?

What are its objectives? What does the United States hope/expect to gain from a (now generational) conflict with a small, crowded country in Mesopotamia?

How does this small, crowded country represent a threat, military or otherwise, to the Last Great Superpower?

Hamza Yusuf speaking about ISIS

The Andalusian Manhaj

Conflict is inevitable. And, from the writings of Heraclitus, we should know that conflict can be creative: the Logos threads its Way through Love and Strife. But conflict need not lead to physical violence. Physical violence ensues where the imagination ends--a "terminus" that is both false and tragic, for the imagination itself has no end. It would therefore be more accurate (and honest) to admit that physical violence ensues where the imagination has been abandoned. Where the imagination has been abandoned, stupefaction reigns.

Sleepy Iberia, who gave us Seneca, the Andalusian convivienca, Unamuno, and Santayana, rouse up from the depths of your spiritual reservoir the strength we need to overcome the world!

Did You Really Imagine, for Even a Moment, that Our Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Would Announce Any Other Approach?

Obama announces open-ended war in Iraq and Syria

Close The Gulag

Kcarab Amabo's Eve of 9/11 Anniversary Speech

Could not have been better timed.

Don't Confuse Us With The Facts!

ISIS atrocities and US imperialism