Why The Middle East Will Fall

Article = Personal Opinion, no references

I like my MP3 player. Why ? Because it drowns out the background noise in my mind. Noise that comes from my mind constantly chugging away and nibbling at the most minor , insignificant things. Like me noticing every cop and armored truck guard in ottawa seems to be wearing a cell phone. Why ? Officially issued equipment ? Doubtful, if the cell phone towers go down they're toast. More like permitted personal equipment. A free back up the public doesn't have to pay for , hurray !

What significance does this have ? None. None at all. Who cares ? But it's an example of the stuff rattling around in my head , making noise, and occasionally presenting me with the results, whether I want those results or not. Or even believe them, sometimes I don't.

So ... Middle east, terrorism, why will it fail ?

Fact One : Our illustrious prime minister Cretien , and Trudeau before him , if you look up their biologies, came from large families. 18 for Cretien , and a similar number for Trudeau. Hmmm... two people , 20 or so kids... the population up until the 1950's before birth control was expanding pretty rapidly. Thats like a ten to one factor every generation. An order of magnitude. Thats a riduculous amount, no nation can survive that level of growth for very long, the whole planet will be quickly burried if something isn't done.

Fact Two : It's been reported in the news several times, just in passing , about these little wars in the middle east who's primary purpose isn't to beat the enemey but to pair off your own population.

Well ... I can understand that. If you want to maintain a stable population and people are having 20 kids per couple , you gotta kill off 90% of those kids right ? And it looks really bad to kill of 90% of your own people , so ... we'll get someone else to do it for us ! Yes..what a great idea. We'll pick a war with our neibours and we'll fight it stupidly and get a lot of people killed. And our neibours, who have exactly the same population problem we have , will go along with the gag and we'll kill off their excess population as well. It will work great.

This explains lots of historical things I saw in history class or read about. Didn't Napoleon once witness a calvary charge through a mass of rifleman , all the way up to his guns, and there they just stood around and looked stupid for a bit and then rode back home ? And comment "It was a beautiful thing it was. But it was not war." Nope , it was the brits controlling their own population. Centuries before birth control was invented.

fact three : The religion of Islam has been frequently remarked to be old fashion and ancient. Remarks like "it is an interesting thing to speak to a man from the sixteenth century" make the papers every now and then.

Conclusion ?

The middle east is fighting the wrong war. They're looking for a prop to lean on to kill off their 90% of the unwanted population without them taking the blame for it, not really looking to conquer the world.

How else can you explain them killing off what in reality is a very tiny number of enemey civilians , interfering in no way at all with your enemies ability to retaliate upon your own population , and calling it a victory ?

Let me rephrase that.

They cannot win this war, because they're not trying to win this war.

They're fighting to lose.

And it's working.

The things that rattle around in my head sometimes.