The Protocols of the Elders of Goyim. Why do I have an irresistable urge to paste this wonderful observation into all the comment threads on
No War Blog?
Why is a plausible link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda invisible to the same people who can quickly connect the dots between the president and a worldwide conspiracy of oil and defense interests?
Speaking of this insidious presidential conspiracy, doesn't it sometimes remind you of another insidious conspiracy? It sure does to Lance Morrow.
Faced with a situation they, on some fundamental level, cannot understand (American soldiers being cheered?), ever more bizarre theories percolate amongst Bush’s opponents to explain his behavior. Amongst the academic left, for example, current wisdom holds that the president is a religious nut who invaded Iraq because of his reading of the Book of Revelations - not because of sound, this-world considerations about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a cunning tyrant given to playing with matches in the powder magazine of the Middle East, but rather because Bush is privately a Christian fundamentalist suicide bomber with an appetite for the Rapture or the Last Days or some other ecstacy of annihilation.
Bush is not One of Us, they say, not People Like Us. There’s that "scary business" of his believing in God. Bush and his gang are part of a Christian conspiracy to destroy the world. You might call this explanation the Protocols of the Elders of Goyim. It is the backup brought in when the left wants to give the Oil Hypothesis a rest. It is the other side of the same coin.
It is an ingenious line of insinuation. The Protocols of the Elders of Goyim states that the venality of the oilmen works hand in glove with their psychotic spiritual purpose. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – that notorious, bogus document beloved of anti-Semites from Henry Ford to Hitler to the House of Saud - performed a similarly comprehensive smear job on the Jews, who were, you see, Mammon-crazed and God-crazed simultaneously. They came from a different universe. They were hostile aliens.
The Protocols of the Elders of Goyim depends upon reassigning Bush - an old-money Wasp from Connecticut and Maine - to an unsavory Christian milieu with roots in the trailer camp and more recently, in the polyester, shopping mall Christianity so culturally distasteful to the snobs of the left.
This reminds me of those people who are dumbfounded at the support for the war because "they don't know anyone who was for it." Some people need to get out more.
<< Home