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Saturday, July 02, 2005As I was saying...The other day in his MSNBC column, Instantman pointed out an interesting Austin Bay comparison. He says the fight against the terrorists in Iraq should be undertaken like efforts against the Ku Klux Klan in America. Says Glenn: One difference is that America's media and political leaders mostly supported the battle against the Klan.Er, depends on when and where you're talking about. At least that's the impression from an excellent book I've been leafing through, Freakonomics. Freakonomics is a book by economist Steven Levitt and report Stephen Dubner that uses economists' methods to decipher aspects of real life that mainstream economists usually eschew. One of the things they looked at was the decline of the clan. The two point to a fellow named Stetson (last name forgotten), related to the founder of Stetson hats, who helped turn the Klan from fierce and frightful terrors into the punchline for a bad joke. Stetson infiltrated the Klan, located a sympathetic producer for the Superman radio show and arranged for terminology from the Klan's "sacred rites" to show up amid the obnoxious banter of the villains. While this didn't kill the Klan, it was harder to put on your hood and go burn crosses if your kids were running around in white headresses yelling the password for the night at each other when you got ready to leave. The key in Iraq is, and always has been, not military superiority, not superior political cunning or anything else of the sort. The key to shutting down Al-Qaeda is to slap a great big "L" for loser on everything they're associated with. The TurkeyBlog frequently worries about the Islamists' unhealthy preference for male company. Unfortunately, political correctness keeps us from doing what we ought to really win this war. Speculations that when two Islamists are standing together, that isn't an AK-47 putting a bulge in the robe, etc, are exactly the sort of things we need to be offering. No offense to the homosexuals by the way. But repressed homosexuals stoning potential partners to hide their secret shame... that's worthy of scorn. Much else is, as well. Put up posters of Mullah Omar throwing chasing girls out of his kindergarten class because they learnt spelling better. Show Osama stomping about because Mom always like his older brother better. In other words, make the kinds of freaks who die in ecstasy because they took a couple thousand infidels with them out to be what they are: lunatic freaks who should inspire scorn, not respectful fear. (PS there's an excellent South Park featuring Osama rushing past a made-up Cartman to seduce a camel that should be aired nightly for the benefit of those who can't remember which side they ought be on.) 
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