A Glimpse Into The Future

 by Phillip Ellis Jackson  

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The 2008 election is still a year and a half away, but we don’t have to wait until then to see how well everything is going to work out once Bush is no longer in office.

June 17, 2010
AP—Washington, D.C.

The downing of a second commercial airliner in as many days has brought worldwide aviation to a halt as British and American authorities sift through the debris for clues as to which Al Qaeda spin-off group is responsible for the latest attack on the U.S. and its allies.

“The President has convened an emergency meeting of the IOC,” a White House spokesman said today, referring to the Islamic Outreach Committee she created upon taking office in January 2009.  “It is incumbent upon the United States, Great Britain, and other Western nations to defuse these growing trans-national tensions by understanding why certain elements of the Islamic culture react so negatively to our traditions and values.  Only then can we identify the common ground that unites us all instead of feeding the hatred of non-Islamic countries that arose from the misguided invasion of Iraq almost a decade ago.”

Experts trace the latest round of attacks to a decision by the Memphis City Council to allow the sale of alcohol and pork products to continue in spite of demands by Al Qaeda in Tennessee to immediately cease all activities that affront Islam, as well as prosecute those responsible for permitting such travesties to take place in the past.  Homeland Security Secretary Sandy Berger issued a statement on behalf of the administration appealing to AQT to recognize the tradition of religious diversity within the United States and not seek to impose its will upon the American people. 

“Of course we understand how important this issue is for those making these demands,” Berger continued.  “We have tried to accommodate their deep-seated religious beliefs by limiting many activities which they have found objectionable through Executive decree.  But it takes time to legislate other changes, and we ask for their patience and understanding as we work through these difficult times.”

Berger stressed that President Rodham-Clinton was committed to a course of action that would respect the Islamic faith and try to heal the wounds brought about by previous U.S. actions.  However, in a statement issued by AQT and echoed by representatives from Al Qaeda in New York, Chicago and Detroit, the Administration was warned that “your time is running out.”  Additional attacks to enforce Sharia Law could not be ruled out. 

A protest in Washington by Iraqi War veterans and 9-11 families scheduled for this coming Saturday was cancelled by Administration officials who used a provision of the Islamic Friendship Act, which replaced the controversial and ineffective U.S. Patriot Act, to deny the necessary permits to hold a noontime rally and march.  Attorney General Patrick Leahy had particularly harsh words for the protesters, whom he accused of fomenting racial and religious intolerance by singling out Islamic fascism for public condemnation.  “These right-wing and Republican groups are still fighting a failed war that can have only one outcome if permitted to continue; that of inflaming passions and causing more terrorism against the people of this great nation.”

Still, the backlash against President Rodham-Clinton’s outreach initiative continues to grow, with George Clooney as the latest Hollywood celebrity to join the anti-Islamic fascism cause.  A spokesman for Clooney, whose acting career has all but ended since Al Qaeda in Los Angeles identified his films as “abominations in the sight of Allah,” said that the people of this country cannot allow “a small band of thugs to dictate their lives, including their movie-going habits.”  Clooney pledged to do “all that he can” to showcase the intolerance of AQLA, and by extension Islamic fascism worldwide.

Like many in the entertainment industry who have seen their careers suffer since the U.S. Film Commission, another creation of the Rodham-Clinton Administration, began reviewing the content of all films and music for any offending words or lyrics that would insult Islam, Clooney has undergone a dramatic reversal in his opinions since the early part of the century, when he was a vocal critic of former-President Bush’s war in Iraq.

“At first I was completely behind the concept of the Film Commission,” Clooney explained.  “But I didn’t recognize then that offending Islam meant showing women as equals to men, or having a drink on film or in your personal life.  Now unless I highlight specific Islamic values in my films, I’m somehow deemed anti-Islam, and the USFC shuts me down.”  Clooney added, “If you give into these people’s demands, it only emboldens them more.  I never thought I’d actually say this, but George Bush was right in opposing them wherever and whenever he could.”

A representative for CAIR, The Council on Islamic-American Relations, announced late yesterday that it was suing Mr. Clooney for his “scurrilous insult to a great religion,” and urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to introduce another Bill of Attainder in Congress sanctioning Mr. Clooney and imposing a severe financial penalty on him and any others “of his ilk.”  Since the Supreme Court ruled that legislation directed towards a specific individual is no longer unconstitutional, as previous courts have ruled it to be, CAIR and various other pro-Islamic groups have unleashed a flood of legislation through their representatives in Congress to silence their critics. 

“Of course we value the traditions of this country regarding free speech,” Khalil Al-Jawadi, a CAIR spokesman said, “but not at the expense of spreading lies about our faith.  Better that the U.S. Congress deal with these insults than we see another round of violence sparked by this behavior.”  Mr. Al-Jawadi was quick to point out that CAIR does not now, and has never condoned violence as a means to deal with offenders of Islam.  But, he said, “we could certainly understand how hate speech like Mr. Clooney’s could spark another international incident in which innocent lives might be taken, as offended Muslims act out in protest with the only means they have.”

The increase in violence worldwide since the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq in early 2009 is indicative to some that the U.S. should have been permitted to finish the job before arbitrarily abandoning its military mission.  The much denigrated “surge” in the final 18 months of the Bush Administration restored a level of security to Baghdad and its surrounding provinces that indicated, to some observers, that the terrorist and foreign insurgent problem had been effectively minimized.  Efforts by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who characterized the Iraq problem as a “situation to be managed,” not a war to be won, succeeded in delaying some of the positive effects of U.S. military action, but not defeating it all together.

However, with the narrow election of Hillary Rodham-Clinton in 2008, the Iraqi government was informed that U.S. troops would be returning home immediately in response to “the overwhelming opposition of the U.S. public to the loss of American life in a failed effort to impose democracy on a people incapable of embracing these concepts.”  The official position of the Rodham-Clinton Administration remains today as it was announced in her inaugural address.  While democracy is a “good thing in general,” the simple fact is that some people “just aren’t ready for it.”

Since the U.S. retreat from Iraq, incidences of Al Qaeda-inspired terrorism have spiked worldwide.  Administration officials call this a “coincidence” and deny any connection to the commonly-held perception that the world’s greatest military power “cut and ran” in the face of domestic political opposition to the war, which emboldened our enemies.  However, others see things differently.  “Like your Vietnam war,” an Al Qaeda in Iraq spokesman said through an interpreter, “the U.S. had us completely beat.  If it wasn’t for your press and people like Senator Kennedy and Cindy Sheehan insisting that the U.S. was losing, we couldn’t have sustained our opposition in the face of a united American effort.  Praise Allah for sewing the seeds of dissention and doubt among our enemies.”

Many military officials, since replaced by the Rodham-Clinton Administration with others more sympathetic to the new official U.S. government policy, bear this out.  “We had these guys whipped,” one U.S. General said in disgust from his retirement home in Georgia.  “Then we declared defeat and just picked up and left.  Of course the bad guys came back and the Iraqi government fell.  Hell, with friends like us, why would any sane Middle East politician throw his lot in with the U.S.?”  Another former high ranking military source put it even more bluntly.  “You think these terrorists are going to just stop now and leave us alone?  We had a chance to cripple Middle Eastern terrorism.  But these self-serving politicians and their allies in the press were more intent on defeating George Bush than ending any threats to this country.  So here we are now.”

Experts agree that incidents of terrorism are expected to rise over the coming years, fed by a lack of will among current Administration officials to alienate important constituent groups in the Democratic Party coalition.  The President’s spokespeople reject this characterization of her motives, and maintain that she will be even more vigilant than previous Administrations in defending American lives.

“We will refer any and all acts of violence to the appropriate international legal authorities for their swift resolution,” Attorney General Leahy stressed earlier this week after the bombing of a school bus in Iowa, adding “the U.S. went it alone before, and we all saw how tragic these results were.  It’s time now to treat the issue of terrorism in a more civilized manner.” 

Meanwhile, in an unrelated story, the price of gasoline is expected to reach $7 a gallon following an announcement from the world’s newest nuclear power, Iran, that it would impose a special “Zionist excise tax” on any government still recognizing the “rogue state of Israel.”  This increase in energy costs comes on the heals of a decision by the Islamic Republic of Iraq to seek war reparations from the U.S. for the death and destruction it brought to “the innocent women and children of our country,” which sent the stock market below the 600 level for the second time this year. 

Administration officials could not be reached for comment on either of these matters, but reminded the American people through a prepared statement that “it’s all Bush’s fault.”

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