My Response to the Flat Earthers: What Goes Around Comes Around

Let me expand upon my response to grannyinsanity about a link to David Ignatius she sent me.

It rapidly goes downhill:

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." The acidulous wisdom of Mark Twain speaks to us across the ages, and never more than this week during the great congressional mobilization to save America's ports from the dreaded hand of Dubai.

The furor over Dubai is misplaced on so many levels... Is it? I think not, on many more levels. You're an idiot if you fall for this deal, David.

Congress-critters are egotistic idiots by definition. But the Dubai deal can fold right under the Congressional and Cheneyburton globalists. The globalists could care less about people on the globe. Their priorities lie in padding their own bank accounts.

Ignatius is probably right about one thing. The Emirates may have one of the best and most sophisticated intelligence machines in the world.

Which is why when they participate in funding terror worldwide, and Al Qaeda right here, it's not exactly unintentional. When they promote and bankroll a CIA-connected bank that terrorists worldwide use, it is no accident. Nor is their substantial commercial influence worldwide, which enough to make the flat-earthers afraid to sail off the edge.

Yes, it is the Navy's port of choice in the Middle East. In fact, you could make a good case the whole Iraqi debacle exists to remove a potential threat from the Emirates. The same thing goes for the war Dear Leader, Darth Rumsfeld, and Cheneyburton want to spread into Iran.

Their populace- not their citizens, mind you, since most of their populace has non-citizen guest worker status- is mostly enslaved. Mind you, that's a Clinton era .gov report (if it doesn't get scrubbed soon). Under Dear Leader, the report is much cheerier.

And you're right, David Ignatius, they remove their capital, and the Saudis theirs too, and it would plunge the whole country into the economic abyss.

You know something? We're headed there anyway with these fascists running our economy, and every day we forestall the inevitable by appeasing these theocrats we just dig that abyss a little deeper.

These are the very creeps whose financial weight keeps the development of energy alternatives under wraps.

It's like Sirota says:

...This is where the culture of corruption meets national security policy - and, more specifically, where the unbridled corruption of on-the-take politicians are weakening America's security.

The fact that no politicians and almost no media wants to even explore this simple fact is telling. Here we have a major U.S. security scandal with the same country we are simultaneously negotiating a free trade pact with, and no one in Washington is saying a thing. The silence tells you all you need to know about a political/media establishment that is so totally owned by Big Money interests they won't even talk about what's potentially at the heart of a burgeoning national security scandal.