<<BAGHDAD - A battle raged Thursday in west Baghdad after residents rose up against al-Qaida and called for U.S. military help to end random gunfire that forced people to huddle indoors and threats that kept students from final exams, a member of the district council said.>>It is odd to write something that seems positive about the Iraq mess. I call this "positive" because my country's soldiers are wanted to help others fight off al-Qaida. I wish that I were there with them. I don't think that there are a lot of positives about al-Quaida, from what I read and hear.
I think that it is nice that al-Quaida opposes the intrusions of western commercialism and decadence. That is definitely nice. Short of this observation, there is not much else that a 21st Century, post-Enlightenment thinker can say. Their patriarchy totally sucks! Their fanaticism totally sucks! Whether or not anyone agrees with anyone else's interpretation of God does not matter. "Everyone has a secret place inside, and by God that is how it should be," to quote an old guy in The Bear, one of my favorite movies.
So it goes.
Eddie Evans
So it goes.
Eddie Evans
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