Children freed from prison

[Urbane Guerrilla]

We do this right, and it will also cause an upsurge in Islamic democracy -- from nothing to several to quite a few, in a region which desperately needs a healthy dose of libertarian political thinking to avoid being condemned to further decades of mismanagement. Let the Islamists try and foment violence -- we come and kill them. And then tell everyone on the planet how fundamentally stupid such fanatics are. Say to the fanatics, "Go ahead! Come to us and get death -- stupid, profitless, sudden, painful, embarrassing death. The more of its idiots, crazies, and jerks Islam can send to immolate themselves on our guns, and the faster it manages to do so, the more the sane, sensible, and peaceable people can influence Islam and keep her on the rightful way."

We have here at least two excellent opportunities: the opportunity to democratize a major oil nation which has surely had a bellyful of how totalitarian regimes do things (and in the belly of a region that contains almost nothing but), and the opportunity to make terrorism the province of losers, not winners. Terrorism must be shown to be the path of the completely shitheaded, of the beyond bashi-bazook. Osama bin Laden isn't getting the groundswell he's looking for -- even if he's healthy enough to try looking for anything. Terrorism is already what it always was -- a try at promoting a "cause" so unpopular on its merits that its adherents have to try violence in its name.

Osama's fighting not only us, but the al-Saud. He took violent exception to their pulling support from the mujahideen in Afghanistan in 1990 and gave the house of Saud such a hemorrhoid over it all that they stripped him of his citizenship just before he left for the Sudan. I'll say this for him; the guy doesn't think small -- but he doesn't think straight, either. If he's not sent swiftly to a long discussion with Allah, he's going to do his coreligionists grave damage with his remarkable ability to make them look bad.