{"id":167,"date":"2001-09-19T03:21:42","date_gmt":"2001-09-19T08:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2001-09-19T03:21:42","modified_gmt":"2001-09-19T08:21:42","slug":"this-story-piqued-my-apocalyptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"This story piqued my apocalyptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/daily\/18\/atta_iraq.htm\">This story<\/a> piqued my apocalyptic fears earlier today, though I could not find the details of it until I got home from work.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>\nOsama bin Laden is the perfect solution for fanatical Arab states.&nbsp;  Through him they are able to prosecute a war which officially and diplomatically they decry.&nbsp;  The hobnailed boot of Arab agression in the Middle East has been left empty as the result of an international (mostly American) prohibition on its use.&nbsp;  They have been gnawing that angry leather idly for many years, one might even say for decades.&nbsp;  Finally, as if in answer to their prayers, that boot is now filled with the force of a potent phantom, a non-state entity responsible to none, who has the resources and the will to carry out the most brutal schemes of the most fanatic elements within the several bona-fide Arab states.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAttacking the Great Satan half a world away was a stroke of self-promotional genius by bin Laden.&nbsp;  He proved to the Arab states, especially to their fanatic elements in their Intelligence and Military communities, that he was capable and competent.&nbsp;  He capably pulled-off the boldest incursion ever into the sovereign land of the world&#8217;s biggest superpower.&nbsp;  And he proved his competency by executing this grand horror without losing any of his cover.&nbsp; I submit that what connections we have discovered between bin Laden and the dead mass-murders, he has intended to reveal to us.&nbsp;  He wants us to attack.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile he is baiting us to attack, he is dangling before the noses of those fevered hate-filled Arab fanatics an irrestible dainty: Isreal.&nbsp;  When the Great Satan superpower attacks the impoverished Afghanistan, bin Laden will have accomplished what he set into motion on my birthday, September 11, 2001 &#8212; justification for the Arab world to retaliate against the United States.&nbsp; And since the Arab states with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdiss.org\/threat1.htm\" title=\"Centre for Defence and International Security Studies\">nuclear capability<\/a> have no launch vehicles capable of reaching the United States, they will retaliate by striking Isreal who they hate even more than the United States.&nbsp;  This is why I oppose a military retaliation against bin Laden, the Taliban, or Afghanistan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe is revolting, an ugly and disgusting soul who seeks nothing good for anyone, yet claims holiness.&nbsp;  He very effectively is gaining power for the sole purpose of feeding his insatiable pride in the same way Popes and nations have been doing it for centuries; by claiming to serve God.&nbsp;  I would like nothing more than for a cruise missle to flick him like a snot from the face of the earth, but I don&#8217;t think we would get him, and besides, that&#8217;s exactly the attempt he wants us to make.&nbsp;  Everything he wants we must oppose.&nbsp;  Osama bin Laden is the closest that humankind has ever come to the Anti-Christ; he may yet prove to be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story piqued my apocalyptic fears earlier today, though I could not find the details of it until I got home from work.&nbsp; Osama bin Laden is the perfect solution for fanatical Arab states.&nbsp; Through him they are able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[284,285,268,944,283,192],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-afghanistan","tag-middle-east","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-stroke","tag-taliban","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}