Mujahadeen Mickey

Walt is certainly twirling in his grave right now.

Something dawned on me while watching this conversation about recreating the great Muslim nations of the past by using western inventions like TV and Disney characters--isn't that really the problem here? When regions or cities or peoples develop a collective inferiority complex it usually leads to muddled group-think.

Recall that Saddam wrote novels about Arab heroes taking out the evil Crusaders and fashioned himself the next Saladin. Dealing with this psychological issue might be the only way to ever win the GWoT. How do we do it? Jimmy Carter might say by removing the Jews from Palestine but Israel is just the excuse, not the problem. Solving the real problem will have to come from within and certainly involves some kind of reformation. That is, unless the west simply capitulates before that occurs.

MORE 5/9/07

The only surviving Disney speaks (and she ain't happy). I think Disney should sue.