Our crazy enemies

Last night the news was filled with scenes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez foaming at the mouth in crazy, hate-filled speeches at the UN. Turns out Ahmadinejad is an adherent of a kooky sect within Islam that believes that the world will descend into chaos, presaging the return of the Twelfth Imam who will deliver the world from evil. What a crackpot! The reality, as we know, is that the four horsemen of the apocalypse will usher in the thousand-year reign of the antichrist following upheaval in the Holy Land, which only THEN will bring about the second coming of the TRUE messiah. Sheesh, how can that man be so misguided? As the bumpersticker says, "In Case of Rapture - Can I Have Your Car?"

Then we've got Hugo Chavez, another complete nutjob, saying he can still smell the sulphur that George Bush - aka The Devil - left behind at the podium. Please, serious world leaders don't go around demonizing those whom they oppose. Our leaders don't go around labeling other countries an "axis of evil," do we? Or talk about our struggle against "evildoers," or claim that God is on our side in the global struggle against evil? That kind of talk has no place at the UN or anywhere!

Earlier I heard the shocking news that there are actually religious leaders in the Islamic world who authorize believers to carry on holy war against the U.S., and that in fact Osama bin Laden got specific permission from one such religious leader to kill up to 10 million Americans. Outrageous! Barbarous! Who ever heard of a religion laying out the ground rules under which war can be justified? Have you ever heard of preachers in the U.S. expressing support for a war from the pulpit? Can you imagine the insanity of those Muslim clerics alligning themselves with those who make war on the US? It would be like Pat Robertson blessing a model of the MX missile on national tv at the height of the nuclear arms race. Preposterous, it would never happen!

Thank God Almighty I live in the good-ol' USA, a country guided by reason and peacefulness, rather than one of those crazy warmongering countries like Iran or Venezuela!