The Devil's Own Blog From God's Own County

I've recently been watching the US TV show JAG - largely in reverse order (i.e watching the series from last to first). Now in later years this show was much used as propaganda for the "War on Terrorism" but it's instructive to watch episode 6 of series 2 - this is basically a publicity puff for the IRA (even down to the "Brits kill Irish babies" level), which for those of you less familiar with history was a nasty little terrorist group prone to killing British people who for some mysterious reason were and remain the most faithful ally of a country that shamelessly supported and still supports terrorism against Britain. More recently we have the US whining because we finally got round to releasing the entirely innocent Libyan convicted for the Lockerbie bombing - the actual cause of which was the trigger-happy nutjob captain of the USS Vincennes. You will note that while the US killed 66 children in its act of terrorism the Iranians carefully selected the flight they targeted so that a high proportion of the casualties were adult military personnel.

One small detail but significant is that while the US valued the lives it destroyed at $300,000 (or $150,000 if they weren't wage earners) it extorted $10m per life from Libya for Lockerbie even though it knew that Libya wasn't the instigator of the retaliation for the US act of terrorism. This might make you think that the US is a nation of cunts - and you'd be right if it did.

Which all in all might make you think Osama bin Laden was a saint for bringing home to that country of barbarians what we in the UK already knew - that terrorism is a bad thing. Then again what can you expect from a country that vests its nationhood in people who are so mentally unstable as to seek the position rather than avoiding the temptation by relying on the chances of breeding. Monarchy might not be perfect but at least it keeps politicians elected by idiot populations from being Head of State.