What Especially Strikes Conspiracy Junction . . .

. . . turns out be only another grossly improbable conspiracy, oddly enough!

What strikes me as even more peculiar is that this is happening at the same time that the "Al-Qaeda" message is becoming noticeably more Bush-like, by which I mean that the stress is more and more on the irreconcilable and open-ended "war of cultures" nature of the conflict, (as opposed to earlier positions that in effect said "as you kill you will be killed", suggesting that the conflicts were thought of as defined). And in this context the Zawahiri remarks about killing the French and Spanish in the Maghreb are particularly telling. So these two things are happening at the same time: These messages are filtered through Washington-based groups, and the content of the messages is increasingly supportive of the idea of an open-ended and endless war between Islam and the West. There is another piece of this picture. Increasingly people are speculating about the possibility that Bush will have to forego some of his warlike plans because at some point his term of office will run out,[1] and the question then becomes how he will go about setting the table to make sure that a successor Democratic administration is faced with no alternative but to continue down the same road. Surely (just thinking of the logic of it), if the Bush-Cheney people were able to ratchet up the "Al-Qaeda" issue as an imminent threat to, say, the nuclear state of Pakistan, or to a cleansing of white people from North Africa, that would go a long way to serve that purpose.[2]

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[1] It would seem constitutionally well-known to all us prescriptively inferior palefaces exactly when the GOP's Little Brother's White House lease expires, regardless of any exotic wannabe-Levantine "logic of it."

[2] If you can parse or construe that seeming mere ebullition of bitter tendentious spleen, Mr. Bones, I doff my cap to you! What the HELL is this exophiliac little CJ lady or laddie going on about, then, as (s)he "just thinks about the logic of it"? The militant extremist Crawfordites can get away with anythin' they want to if only they sufficient claim and clamour to be anti-AQ, is that it, then? What contemptible nonsense, sir, when the unsatisfactory state of the former Iraq is infinitely more due to a failure about sich durchzusetzen at Rancho Crawford!

Of course that thoroughly unintelligible or utterly irrelevant "cleansing of white people from North Africa" must take and top the cake of the Mu’ámariyya, Mr. Bones, but it's only an icin', after all. The real problem is that the underlying CJ cake is so scarcely distinguishable from the gaudy icing of it.

Astaghfiru'lláh! Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison!