Us V. Them

In any type of fight, conflict, or struggle, let alone a War, an Us vs. Them mentality always infects and pervades the mindset of those involved. Us, we are righteous, good, just, blessed, the epitome of virtue. Them, they are scum, animals, barbaric savages; they’re absolutely fucking worthless evil sub-human pigs. So it goes in the GWOT (Global War on Terror, because it’s always a good idea to bomb an emotion). It’s good versus evil. It isn’t only America that’s on the side of good, as it’s assaulted by no less than what very well could be an army of the minions of Satan, it’s all of Western-Christian civilization, set upon by the swarthy, scheming Islamofascistic hordes of the third world. They are unequivocally evil, not one shred of doubt about, and we must lock them up, possibly torture them, and kill them, for the good of the world.

Sometimes, even to a terrorist sympathizer such as myself, it can seem like there is something that really is different about them, that Al Qaeda and their ilk are not only an especially vicious assortment of sadists and thugs, but that compared to us, they must be pathologically ghoulish in their love of killing as many people as possible. Take for example one of the worst things anyone could ever hope to not see, it’s definitely the worst I’ve ever come across, the video of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi beheading Eugene Armstrong. Anyone who has the misfortune to watch that cannot come away from it without knowing that what they saw is as pure evil that you can get, it stands shoulder to shoulder with any other acts of depravity visited upon man by his fellow man.

The site of a man being held down while someone in a balaclava saws through their neck doesn’t leave you, and the sound, the sound of it is even worse. I can’t imagine anything that could ever sound any worse than that, a man screaming as a knife blade cuts into his throat, turning into a high pitched squeal as it gurgles through so much blood. Words don’t match it, and they shouldn’t be able to. And you can find dozens more like that, hundreds even; beheadings, shootings, bombings, a lot of them accompanied by these awful chanting Islamic songs devoid of instrumentations, nasheeds. A group of men lined up and laying down in front of a wall, unloaded on with a Kalashnikov. An injured man helped to his feet after surviving a helicopter crash, then promptly murdered by his “rescuers.” Countless videos of a convoy of hummers, people in the background whispering “allahu akbar!”, then they highlight a particular car… BOOM! it disappears in a sudden grey explosion, and now they’re shouting, “ALLAHU AKBAR!!!”

This is a group, or rather, a grassroots movement, that methodically documents the most violent, evil actions imaginable, that glorifies them, lays them out before the world, “this is us, this is what we believe, what we stand for.”; there has to be something wrong with them, something different about them, something that we wouldn’t be capable of, doesn’t there? But then, we do the exact same thing. Of course, we clean things up a little, at least from the view on our end. We don’t go out and use knives that we very well might have just finished using to make a sandwich, we don’t use Improvised Explosive Devices set up by roadsides and set off by garage door openers, or suicide bombers. We don’t have to, we spend too much money to have to do something as unsophisticated and messy as all that. That would be embarrassing. We have F-16’s, Tomahawk cruise missiles, precision GPS guided JDAM’s, apache gunships, predator and global hawk UAV’s (a pet peeve, I’m with Bill Maher on this one, think whatever you want of a young man who will drive a car packed with explosives into a military convoy, or who can pilot a plane right into a building, but do not call them cowards when there are soldiers flying remote control combat missions, blowing up some car in Mosul with a hellfire missile while they’re sitting in an air conditioned building in Nevada sipping lattes), and al sorts of other flashy, high tech instruments of death.

And people have uploaded snuff films made from our side, you know, the good one, all over the web; you can find dozens, hundreds of them. Many of them are from the IR camera of a gun sight, devoid of color, so when you see a man torn from limb to limb, leaving a glowing white stain on an empty grey field, it somehow seems more sanitized, less gory. Our sides preferred style of battle is from a distance. That’s what we like to do, distance ourselves from the killing and danger; the people we’re trying to kill can’t help but get in close and dirty, their shoestring budgets necessitate it.

So while the videos they post up there might be more gruesome, our’s are just as brutal and violent, even more so perhaps, if the idea of institutionalized killing turns you off more than young guys taking up the initiative on their own. There are a plethora of buildings viewed from the sights of bombers seen disappearing in a silent blast of dust and debris, of eyes in the sky tracking convoys of cars and trucks, then those being shredded by gunfire and missiles, of men being dismembered and decapitated by bullets shot from apaches, and there’s also footage shot by soldiers from the ground with their own personal camcorders, mostly of air strikes taking out whole buildings, and everyone inside them, also of firefights, and the aftermath of such engagements. Often, you can hear people in the background shouting things like “Hell Yeah!” and “Jesus!”

So we upload those videos for all the world to see, glorifying our way of mechanized killing, some of them are even spliced together to form montages, which can be set to music, most of the time something like heavy metal. Are we really different from them at all? On anything other than a technological level? On one website where you can find tons of these videos, anybody can post comments about them, and most of those comments come from people on our side, or who at least sympathize with us. Those comments contain some of the most ultra-nationalistic, racist, hateful, and violent sentiments I’ve read. On the enemies’ websites and message boards, most of the comments that they leave on their videos don’t go much beyond “praise god” and “thank you brother.”

Their hate doesn’t come through quite as rabidly on the islamofascist forums. The people on the good side have things like this to say about videos of us brutally killing people in as many ways as our grand technology allows:

"mmm think i saw some mooj parts flying there...dogs will eat fried meat tonight."

“1 less Arab terrorist wasting the Earth's precious oxygen.”

“Beautiful,just beautiful...some more brownies we need not worry about GOT BLESS THOSE BRAVE PILOTS”

"thx dude, and sure those dirty Sunni Wahabi Salafi pigs will go to hell all of them cuz they infidels. cheers :D"

"Die f***ing scum!!!"

"They are Muji Pork with salad now. LMFAO LOLZzzzzzzzzz"

"Quoted comment by lasrever: murder is nothing to gloat about, even if it's an enemy Murder??? If someone broke into your house while you and you lovely wife were in bed. Would murder him or just kill him? I'm not talking about gloating. I'm talking about the difference between "murder" or ridding your cat of fleas."

"Excellent Vid,outstanding! I laughed and laughed."

"Nice day for shooting daiperheads..."

"There are still some hadjis in there alright... Sliding down the sides of the back of the walls.. Hahahha ******* LIT UP!! Get some scumbags!!"

"the rats will have a virtual mooj buffet over this."

"Man i love that last clip. No Muja can escape! Can you imagine the fear and horror the Mujas felt in their last minutes? Just as they deserve."

"LMAO at the terrorists. Lets see, we offer a chance to have a happy life, raise children, enjoy all life has to offer. The terrorist way of life includes beheading videos, randomly blowing up civilians and chanting while cutting your body with a knife. Which future would you 'accept'"

"ohhh glorious Allah... thank you for putting the dummies that take your religion too far into our gun sites so that we may blow them too bits and send them straight to hell!! ALLLLAAAHHHHHHH BOMBCAR!"

"the dirty Sunni Wahabi Insurgent who survived at first is engaged again by Apache @1:23 and killed with his friend and u can see his dirty dead body @1:44. Allah Akbar :)"

"HELL YEAH, THATS WHAT I NEED TO SEE, OWNED OWNED!!! WE NEED MORE POSTS OF MOOJS GETTING ****ED UP."

"HA HA HA HA HA HA looks like those dumb arse iraqis never learn . stay home you will live longer but thousands of years of inbreeding gives the world whole nations of dumb dumb dumb people like iraq iran ect ect"

"God I love when we slaughter these primitive little Muslims. It's so easy -- like stepping on ants! I guess they shouldn't have tried to f.uck with us."

"If they keeping this killing pace the UN is gonna put these Mother F@#$&$ on the Endangered species list.....ahahaahahahahahha"

"why run? you can't hide EVER!! all you mooji brother will die and you can't hide!! you guys picked the wrong side! ALLAH is not with you. HAHAHAHA!! islam scum."

"ahahahaha death from above. Didn't even know it was coming. Mooj bits all over the place."

"More dead rag heads!! i love it when the dogs get away and moojs get owned bigtime!! voted!! keep up the good work killing those scum bag cowards..."

"as easy as squishing bugs"

"so true... but what do you expect from guys worshipping a rock and hoping for virgins fron their pedophile prophet."

"hahahah the dirty Sunni Wahabi Pigs get OWNED as usual by the heroic US Troops (God Bless Them)."

"sexy fukin vid it feels so good to watch those dirty sunnis get fukin owned...how do these e-hajis root for these jobless uneducated pieces of shit...welll they must be like them too"

"You killed another Iraqi. The world is safe now."

"Oh man, those Haji's got OWNED! Those muslim terrorists are such MORONS. Sounds like they need to pray to a real God instead."

To me, it seems pretty clear, we hold no monopoly on good and virtue, and they certainly don’t have the market cornered on brutality and evil and hatred. Whichever side they happen to be on, people are going to be people, for badder or for worse.