Propaganda - Fuckups
Wenn es eine Front im globalen Kampf gegen den Terror gibt, an der der Westen bisher phänomenal versagt hat, dann ist das wohl die Propagandafront. Islamische Hasstiraden und Propagandavideos beherrschen die arabische Presse während die westlichen Medien in nicht unerheblicher Menge den USA und Israel kritischer gegenüber stehen - und den muslimischen Extremisten apologetischer - als den Feinden der westlichen Lebensweise. Quanagate und die einseitige Libanonkrieg-Berichterstattung auch der öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien sind dafür nur weitere Indizienbeweise.
Das Gerichtsverfahren gegen Zacharias Moussaoui war ein weiteres "Glanzlicht" in dieser Hinsicht. Aber ich lasse den "War Nerd" da mal für mich sprechen.
In the one photo they released pre-trial, Moussaoui looks like an Islamic puppy, mooning up at the camera through a fisheye lens like he's begging for a Soy-based artificial bacon strip. He looked exactly like a 19th hijacker, if not a 20th or lower. I figured he'd look even more pathetic when he came to trial last month.
I mean, if they haven't been working him over, 24/7, in custody all these months then God damn it, why not? Where have my tax dollars been going if not to buy lengths of hose to be applied to the feet and kidneys of this bastard? I was looking forward to seeing him creep into that courtroom like a man who got a crash course in Anatomy 101 by having all 206 bones in his body broken by experts.
Das Moussaoui so vor Gericht erscheinen konnte, spricht für das Gerechtigkeitsempfinden der Amerikaner, und leider gegen ihr Verständnis des Krieges, in dem wir alle uns befinden.
Instead, Moussaoui blew into court looking like Bluto from Popeye: this big, burly, hairy, shouting blowhard full of Koranic piss'n'vinegar. It was shameful to watch the way he talked back to the useless prosecution team. It ruined the whole point of the trial. Look, this trial isn't exactly a whodunit. Moussaoui boasts non-stop that he was in on the plot, so that's settled. The point is to make him look weak and terrified and get him to renounce his Al Quaeda ties in public, preferably while crying like a little bitch.
Bei diesem Verfahren ging es nie um "Gerechtigkeit". Z-Mans Schuld stand nie zur Debatte. Hier ging es nur darum, der islamischen Welt Stärke zu beweisen, und ein mahnendes Beispiel für die zu setzen, die den Westen zerstören wollen. Ich glaube zwar nicht, dass die Amerikaner das verstanden hatten, aber falls ja - dann war das ein ziemlich gravierender Reinfall.
Instead - and it shames me to say this - it was our guys who cried. I can't believe it! There was a serving US Army officer on the stand, CRYING while he talked about people being (sob!) killed, yes, KILLED when Moussaoui's pals from the "How to Fly a Commercial Airliner without Landing" aviation school slammed that commuter jet into the Pentagon. This dude was soaking his hanky while Moussaoui looked on and sneered.
Now don't start telling me about how manly it is to cry. In the first place, no it isn't. In the second place, even if you think so, they sure don't think that way in Waziristan and Yemen and Java. In those places, a US Army officer weeping while he talks about casualties means one thing: w-e-a-k.
Das ist das Problem bei der ganzen Sache. Wenn man solche Verfahren durchzieht, müssen sich alle Beteiligten klar darüber sein, dass es hierbei in erster Linie um Propaganda geht, und in letzter Konsequenz ums Gewinnen. Ein Verfahren, dass in die ganze Welt ausgetstrahlt wird, und dementsprechend natürlich auch für alle Feinde einfach zugänglich ist, kann keinen heulenden US-Offizier zeigen. Eine IED in Irak tötet vielleicht 5 Marines. Ein solches Zeichen von Schwäche bringt Hunderte andere in Gefahr. Keiner hat Angst vor einem Feind, der weint!
War is PR. And the Moussaoui trial is a classic case of bad PR, so bad the idiots who staged it should, in my not-all-that-humble opinion, be stood up against a wall and shot, just a few times, to show them the error of their ways. It would give them to know that we are serious, at least. Their job was simple: break Moussaoui. Make him cry on the stand. Make him wave a cross, maybe, talk about how he'd found Jesus. It's not hard. Just put him in a cell with a 300-pound AB or MM or BGF member and give the gorilla a carton of Marlboros to do whatever he has to to break the little bastard. But nooooooo! Thanks to the tie-wearing DC incompetents who must've been playing dominoes with him instead, Moussaoui didn't break, didn't beg forgiveness, didn't look weak at all. He looked, I hate to admit it, pretty strong.
They asked him whether he regretted hurting us, he answered like he was explaining to a bunch of idiots that "the whole POINT was to hurt you." It kind of scares me that the people running his trial didn't expect that answer. It's like nobody will admit there are people out there who don't like us. Why is that so hard to get?
Es sagt leider einiges über den US-Justizapparat aus, wenn man solche Hohlbratzen einen solchen hochkarätigen Fall bearbeiten lässt. Wie kann jemand, der seine Sinne zusammen hat, denn eine solche Frage stellen!?! Lasst das nächste Mal jemanden vom FSB die Arbeit machen, Herrgott!
The low point came when some fool in a suit asked him, "Why do you hate America?" Now why would you ask a card-carrying Islamist crazy man that question in open court? What was the point, purposely giving him the ultimate pulpit on world TV? Well, that's what happened anyway. Moussaoui started by sighingsighing!and saying, "Well, my answer will be long."
Of COURSE it's gonna be long! He's been waiting his whole life to give this speech! What idiot of a prosecutor would give him the chance? People like him spend their worthless stinking lives dreaming of a moment like that, standing up there and givin' it to the Man live on Al Jazeera. And we let him do it, the whole court sitting through an hour while he ticked off all the usual grudges, from Jerusalem to Kabul.
Do the morons in charge have any idea how proud that must've made millions, and I do mean millions, of young suicide-bomber types sitting in front of cheap Chinese TVs in Gaza, Karachi, Ramadi, Sana'a and for that matter Ann Arbor?
Die Frage stellt sich leider ernsthaft. Ich fürchte, es werden noch ein paar Zehntausend Tote ins Land gehen, bevor viele im Westen realisieren, in welcher Art von Krieg man sich tatsächlich befindet...



