Norman Mailer On World Domination
Norman Mailer, who once was an anarchist and now refers to himself as a Left-Conservative is actually just incompetent. He claims he can't be aliberal because he believes in God and the Devil; and thinks that Bush is going for world domination: Behind the whole thing in Iraq is the desire to have a huge military presence in the near-East as a stepping stone for eventually taking over the world.
He continues: From a radical Muslim point of view, America is absolutely the Great Satan, and this is a war to the death. But in terms of military realities, I don’t think it is necessary for us to build an empire to be able to contain Muslim rage. For one thing, apart from anything else, it would take Islamic extremists, what? A hundred years to overthrow us? Systematic terrorism for 100 years? Fifty years? Their all-out rage is not likely to last that long.
So there it is. Mailer thinks we just need a strategy to wait out the terrorists till they get bored with us. And on what basis does he think their rage 'is not likely to last that long'? How long have the Arabs hated and fought with the Jews? Centuries perhaps.
The rest of his comments presuppose his assumption about Bush's intentions of world domination and so aren't particularly enlightening. [link via Fimoculous]
UPDATE: If you need an additional reason to dislike Mailer - here's the gravy: Abbott, who wrote the best selling book "In the Belly of the Beast," was paroled in 1981 with the help of author Norman Mailer (he had been serving time for robbery). Weeks after his release, Abbott murdered a man on a New York City street, a crime for which he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
He continues: From a radical Muslim point of view, America is absolutely the Great Satan, and this is a war to the death. But in terms of military realities, I don’t think it is necessary for us to build an empire to be able to contain Muslim rage. For one thing, apart from anything else, it would take Islamic extremists, what? A hundred years to overthrow us? Systematic terrorism for 100 years? Fifty years? Their all-out rage is not likely to last that long.
So there it is. Mailer thinks we just need a strategy to wait out the terrorists till they get bored with us. And on what basis does he think their rage 'is not likely to last that long'? How long have the Arabs hated and fought with the Jews? Centuries perhaps.
The rest of his comments presuppose his assumption about Bush's intentions of world domination and so aren't particularly enlightening. [link via Fimoculous]
UPDATE: If you need an additional reason to dislike Mailer - here's the gravy: Abbott, who wrote the best selling book "In the Belly of the Beast," was paroled in 1981 with the help of author Norman Mailer (he had been serving time for robbery). Weeks after his release, Abbott murdered a man on a New York City street, a crime for which he was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
# | January 07, 2003