Rant

Sometimes I wonder about people and how ignorant they are or choose to be. I’ve written before on my opinions of liberals. Truth is, there are conservatives who are ignorant, too. Though they tend to be based more on logic and sound thinking than on emotion, which is where most liberals make their homes.

I work with a couple of liberals and it never stops amazing me (God save me because they still say things that surprise me) when they say stupid things. It’s not that I think they are stupid. These are people who, when not discussing politics or world affairs, are smart people with good problem solving skills. Start mentioning Republicans, though, and they revert to their “no-logic” training.

Last Friday, an American citizen had his head cut off in Saudi Arabia. I knew the terrorist SOB’s had kidnapped him and threatened to do it. I saw on foxnews.com that he’d been beheaded. I mentioned it to the folks working around me. Tokia, my neighbor at work, mentioned how hurt the family must be at this point and I agreed. Then she mentioned about the anger they must be feeling. I agreed. Then she said “They are going to be so mad at President Bush and blaming him. I can understand that.” Huh?

I should be used to this line of “thinking.” It never occurred to her to blame the damn monsters who did this to someone who had never done anything to them. It was President Bush’s fault. Knowing she only blamed him because he wasn’t a Democrat, I asked her “Did you blame President Clinton for the Oklahoma City Bombing and the people who died there? Why would you blame President Bush for this?” Her response was classic in its ability to make no sense. “Well, they caught the people responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing.” Huh? What the heck does that mean? By that same logic, President Bush is responsible for the WTC attack in 2001 until we catch Osama Bin Laden. Of course, I know what you’re thinking. “That doesn’t make any sense!” You’re right. It doesn’t. We didn’t blame President Clinton for the 18 airmen who died in the Khobar towers in 1996, the sailors who died on the USS Cole in 2000, or the Rangers and DF who died in Somalia. We didn’t blame President Reagan for the 220+ Marines who died in Beirut in 1983.

Now conservatives did try to blame most of the ills of the 1990s on President Clinton but I don’t recall them claiming he was responsible for anyone’s death. That leap of non-logic seems reserved for liberals.

It’s simple. The man who cut off the American’s head is responsible. We should find him and kill him (the Saudis claim they already did, for whatever that is worth).