Blair to take a hard line against the Sith.

But thinks Klingon dick “tastes just like Coca-Cola.”

“C-O-L-A Cola.”

That comparison was a little unfair, not least because I have no insight as to Mr. Blair’s actual taste in beverages or in either Lucas or Roddenberry alien wang --

(Although I do hear from Counselor Troi fan-sites that that Klingon skull crenellations...well... let’s just say that Klingon men sport another, less publicly visible ridge and leave it at that.)

(OK, lets just say that the Klingon name for this mini mountain range is “k’thang”, which loosely translated means, “Thousands of tiny fingers urging you to destroy your enemies and drink their blood”...and leave it at that.)

(All right, and let’s just say that there’s a Vulcan saying that goes, “Once you go ‘crested’, you’ll never “ch’u’ested” -- which I understand is perhaps the Vulcan term for “go back”...and leave it at that.)

-- but this seemed as good an entrée as any into the same, simple exercise is the one I did a few days ago with Friedman’s column.

I am not, if there was any doubt, advancing the case that we should do nothing about radical, Islamic terrorists. Instead I am making quite the opposite point. That we must win, but we cannot win it alone. We need allies, especially in the Muslim world.

And we cannot credibly make any sort of case to Moderate Islamic leaders and groups about the virtues of tolerance and plurality, which at the same time the Christopath Party that controls all branches of the United State government continues to push an explicitly intolerant and theocratic agenda...and crush anyone who stands in their way.

As long as likes of Dobson and Falwell, Roberston and Weyrich, Wildmon and DeLay, Santorum and Frist and so many, many more have a place at the head of the GOP, the Muslim world can not only call us liars and latter day conquistadors to our faces, but they can make the charge stick.

Our strength has never been our military alone, however powerful it might be. Democracy does not flourish in soil muddy with the blood of innocent civilians and contaminated by depleted uranium, filthy water and lies.

Our greatest strength – our “invisible export” – has always been our image. We are best when we are an Exemplar Nation, and the friends we buy only stand with us as long as the checks clear, while the friends we win by trust, sacrifice and walking our fucking Big Talk are the ones who will be there to mourn with us when we bleed and celebrate our victories with us without resentment.

Any hooker or hostage will tell you whatever the fuck you want to hear...as long as they get paid, or have a gun pointed to their head.

These are not the friends we want in the Muslim world, and the only way to recruit the people to our side who will not knife us in the dark is to ACTUALLY model the good behavior we hector and harangue everyone else on the globe about.

Now I know demonstrating that their leaders are liars and traitors doesn’t faze the Elite of the Republican Party in the slightest. Or its hard core members, because at heart, a lot of them are just not bright enough to follow any line of argument for more than 30 seconds that doesn’t lead to beer, cousin-fucking or some Aurora Borealis-haired holy huckster telling them that niggers and feminazis and Liberals are to blame for the fact that they're a bust-out meat-heads.

Or, as is more often the case, for all of their Bullshit (Bob Novak ™ Pending), nothing would delight most Republicans more than to save the Second Ammendment, use the rest of the United State Constitution as ass-floss, and institute and nice, orderly, pasty-white-male-friendly police state from sea to shining sea. With them calling the shots, using the guns the have a Constitutional Right to use to kill anyone that looks at ‘em funny or tries to unionize.

Don’t let them lie to you: these cocksuckers hate this country and nothing gets their petite peter’s pumping faster that the thought of being a lieutenant in the local Nightwatch chapter, so he could finally blow away that annoying, Liberal, smartass neighbor of his and take possession of his 72” plasma screen AND his very fuckable wife.

Like God intended.

But while the local GOP action political team of Inbred and Fascist don’t give a shit that their government is run by criminals – as long as they get a fat slice off the top AND get to help draw up death squad laundry lists – the rest of the world is watching. Very carefully. And for that world to see James Dobson as the face of the Power behind the American Throne is worse than simply embarrassing.

If the Republican Party wants to capture the hearts and imaginations of the world, it must first repudiate these hateful men and women in their midst -- by name -- publicly and repeatedly.

Conversely, presenting a Dominionist Face to the rest of humanity will let Osama Bin Laden and his ilk say to the Muslim World, “We told you so.” and absolutely drive our potential Moderate allies straight into the arms of our worst enemies. Continuing to allowing these sons-of-bitches to run our country presents as lethal a lapse in judgment as letting in planeload after planeload of strangers from Syria and Saudia Arabia without bothering to check their passports or luggage.

It worse that just humiliating to tell the world that we are a nation of nuclear-armed, wingnut, cracker Kallikaks: it is a national security risk of the first magnitude.

And to the extent the GOP refuses to amputate this disease wing of its Party, that is the exact extent to which they aid and abet our enemies. That is the extent to which they betray our country.

So hocus pocus, Dominion-ocus, we swap in “Bush” and “Christian” for “Blair” and “Muslim” and behold how depressingly symmetrical one group of religious extremists is to another. And how the New York Times would read if the leaders of our country weren’t in the thrall of the scum of the Earth.

Click here if you want to read the actual article.

Here is exactly the same article, lightly edited, and cut down for length:

August 6, 2005
Bush Is Seeking to Curb Radicals Who Preach Hate
By ALAN COWELL

LONDON, Aug. 5 – President George Bush promised new measures on Friday to close down churches and bar or deport “reverends” deemed to be fostering hatred and violence, bringing America’s antiterrorism policy more into line with some of its neighbors' and answering critics who say the country has sheltered Christian Fundamentalist extremists for years.

He also said two Christian organizations would be banned.
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The changes, which will require Congress’ approval, strike a harsher note in the continuing debate here about the balance between civil liberties and national security.
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Mr. Bush warned that American would amend its human rights legislation, if necessary, to enable the authorities to deport foreigners to lands with questionable human rights records - a step forbidden under the Geneva Convention.

The new measures take aim for the first time at Dominionist Web sites and bookstores that are considered extremist and at "networks and particular organizations of concern." In addition, Mr. Bush said that any foreigners in America in "active engagement" with those sites or groups would be considered for deportation. He did not say how America would define the term extremist.

"We will consult on a new power to order closure of a place of worship which is used as a center for fomenting extremism and will consult with Christian leaders in respect of those pastors who are not American citizens, to draw up a list of those not suitable to preach who will be excluded from America," Mr. Bush said.

He mentioned two groups that would be banned: “Focus on the Family”, which says it supports a nonviolent campaign to create an American Theocracy; and successor groups to “The 700 Club”, which had made a point of saying the Sept. 11 hijackers were instruments of God’s punishment for feminism and homosexuality.

He also promised broader use of so-called control orders, which civil rights activists regard as a form of house arrest imposed without formal charges being placed.
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The threatened measures drew strong protests from Christian groups.

Jerry Falwell, a spokesman for Good Time Gospel Hour, said the move to outlaw it would cause "serious repercussions" ... "will be seen by the Christian community as stifling legitimate political dissent."

Phyliss Schlafly, former President of the Eagle Forum, said Christians "will think it is a war against political Christianity. This is a very dangerous signal from the government."
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In recent months, some of those Dominionists have been jailed or restricted. Paul Weyrich faces possible extradition, and Jimmy Swaggart is under a form of house arrest. The measures announced by Mr. Bush are in addition to previously announced plans to introduce legislation later this year making it an offense to glorify, prepare for or incite acts of violence.

Mr. Bush said he was ready to come back from his looooong summer vacation if necessary to accelerate the harsher controls.

In a 12-point list of measures, Mr. Bush said America planned as of Friday to broaden the grounds for deportation to include "fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs or justifying or validating such violence."
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"This is not in any way whatever aimed at the decent, law-abiding Christian community of the United States," Mr. Bush said. "We know that this fringe of extremists does not truly represent Jesus."

He further promised to stop giving James Dobson free, POTUS bareback blowjobs whenever he snapped his fingers, and to stop letting them scamper like Willard's own rats though the corridors of power and run the Republican Party.