Saturday, July 22, 2006

 
[A more incoherent than usual Cornercentric rant sent yesterday with minimal editing today]

Giving War A Chance And PJ O'Rourke Credit And For Baja: The Krajina Rx...

OK, so I protest too much -many Readers surely "got" Rich Lowry's O'Rourke reference, and I, for one, haven't even read that particular book. (One hopes that PJ, not much in the news of late, is keeping liver and soul together in Blatherboro or wherever)Like many Republicans, I remember the ethnic cleansing of Krajina(tho I doubt I could have spelled it correctly without Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Croatia
and muttered now and then that the Serbs were not appreciably more vile than their neighbors, and that they were getting something of a raw deal(assuming that isn't some Balkan delicacy)and that partitioning in general made more sense than trying to get the various and sundry Slavic massacrers and massacrees to live cheek by Mihajlovic or whatever. However, unlike many Democrats of today, few of us called President Clinton a "war criminal" or gushed about an idyllic pre-war Yugoslavia in which children flew kites(or bats tethered on strings or whatever the Hell they do for funsies in a land compared unfavorably to the lush fields of France by PJO).
Where was I? -this tripe(the actual stuff yummy perhaps for Limeys 'n Frogs)falls below my already low standards -due, I hope, to the new central air conditioning having not yet made up the deficit of a few weeks without it. Uh, has Rich Lowry come out for ethnic cleansing? Nah- too much to hope for. Fudgemonkees- even *I* don't want Israel to start settling lower(sounds more on point than "southern" -think: Al Capp's "Lower Slobovia")Lebanon or re-settling part of the swank, glittering Gaza Strip. Just because the Muslim nutsos will rant about plots and plans for a "Greater Israel" stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates -regardless of how much actual land Jews vacate, this doesn't mean that we should encourage [the "Zionist entity"] in this. Nope, I'd be happy Dhimmi with a "Lesser Lebanon" or a "Gaza Strip Petite Cut" or a "Thin-Waisted West Bank." i.e.(pronounced "aiiyeeee!!" by Muslims in a free fire zone)the southern fifty miles or so of Lebanon should be made into a ferengin'(can't remember the Muslim term for "Frank" at the moment)"Garden of Eden." that is, with any human - "Hadamas" or "Eva Braunzibolla"- cast out and a burning sword slicing the falafels of any who dared to return.
Now some(well, maybe some Meir Kahane acolytes)might complain that the above vision places some constraints on what was promised to Moses and that furthermore, I place no such limits on U.S. sovereignty. But hey, I believe the Hairy Thunderer promised This Land -made for you and me -not for Stalin or Lefty folk singers-from sea to shining sea. The sooner we reoccupy California(and the countless hovels that measle much of our country), the better. And just to show what might happen if La Raza wantsta' rumble for some Lebensraum again, we should nab 'n rehab all of Baja California. And if like the Frogs who draped a statue relating to Alsace-Lorraine after losing that province in the Franco-Prussisian War, the Mexicans want to whine about it - so much the better if it keeps us forever on our toes and ready to mobilize at a momenTito's notice; heck, we could address the [subject to regular elections]governor of our [eternal]51rst state as "Kaiser Permanente."

Sorry- No- Really, Really, Sorry,
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