some neutral perspective ...

i admit that i am tempted to feel like a prick, saying that al queda is weak, and then they set off a few bombs in london. well ... i don't know who set off the bombs. i do know that i was suprised on the morning of sept. 11 about how soon they were able to say that it was osama bin laden behind the attacks.

and in fact, until i read the translation of osama admitting to the attacks ... (i don't speak arabic, or whatever language he speaks -- it is a common misperception of white people that all muslims speak the same language, when i believe there are many more languages in persia than arabia ... and more still in the rest of the central asian republics. and though osama is from saudi arabia, afghanistan is a central asian republic closer to india than to arabia ... i think.)

talk about a tangent. nonetheless, i don't know what he said. but suffice to say, his admission in the sub-titles was enough for me to finally choose to accept his responsibility. blah blah blah ...

but i don't feel like too much of a prick. in fact, i will argue that the london bombings are proof that they are pussies. one, they were trying to get to the g8 in scotland, london was as close as they could get. two of the bombs did not go off (stinking of the same failure as the columbine kids -- whom i watched something on earlier today). also, the bombings didn't kill many people (i will get to that). and, on top of that, it was england.

england may be the most committed of our allies, but they are our bitch. bush owns blair. when bush says jump, blair says how high. when bush says he wants a blow job, blair asks if he should service him personally or if he would prefer that blair's wife does the trick. england is a weak country that has not mattered since before the first world war. and that's 100 years, if you are counting.

seriously, al queda can't actually think that attacking our allies is going to do any good. they aren't retarded. anytime they attack a non-american target, they are yelling at the top of their lungs: "we suck harder than the bitches on the corner of stockton and broadway!!!" i am just saying, real men would come with it.

think about it. let's say that you and i got in a fight. you punched me in the nose, and i beat the shit out of you. then, to get revenge, you attack my handicapped friend. now really, are you a man? no. the answer is no. you are not a man. and even your angry and jealous god spits on you.

and moreover, if sept. 11 was a punch in the nose, then london was a kick in the shin. and just like a bitch that would kick you in the shin, those bitches turned tail and ran.

the strongest argument against my claim that they are over and done with is that yesterday's attack was significant. so i figured that i would randomly track down some death tolls, to put london into some perspective. they are listed in the order i found them.

• london bombings; 50+ dead; 700+ injured
• iraq war; 22, 787 dead (min.)
• 2004 tsunami; 240,000+ dead
• columbine shootings; 13 dead; 24 injured
• oklahoma city bombing;168 dead; 800+ injured
• sept. 11; 2,986 dead
• hiroshima and nagasaki; 100,000+ dead outright (many more dead over time)

ok, i am not going to do this forever. the point is just that what happened in london, when compared to notable terrorism acts in history, london was pretty minor. and when compared to mother nature, it is inconsequential. but what really dwarfs london in comparison to sept. 11 was the historical significance.

no matter how you feel about politics, war and george bush, there is no way to deny the effect that sept. 11 had on the world at large. for example, without sept. 11, there would have been no bombings yesterday. but more than that, i believe that sept. 11 spelled the begining of the end of the pax americana, which i believe will prove to be one of the most significant periods in recorded history ... if only based on the the onset of the nuclear age.