Strippers, terrorists and exploding heads

An old friend named Kdog sent me this:

I've always said we could have saved a lot of money and lives if we sent a brigade of all-star American strippers to Afghanistan and Iraq instead of young men and women with guns...the crazies heads would explode and peace would reign:)

It's a funny thought, might make a great Peter Sellers' type movie, or maybe a "Get Smart" in which Smart pulls down the bra of his assistant and becomes confused over which is the mike and which is the receiver......while the terrorist fall dead around them....

I used to think that sex, drugs, rock and roll plus jeans and low cut shorts would win the cultural war, just as they won the cold war. Of course they wouldn't because the terrorists would just slaughter the women and young men and our PC leaders would opine thoughtfully over cultural norms and how we must not judge.

I mention this because one of our a army guys in Iraq used a Koran for target practice. Naturally everyone went gaga and I understand that Bush called up and apologized.

"Horse hockey," as Colonel Potter use to say.

You can look at this on two levels. The first is that it causes problems that we don't need, and that's true. You can also say that we must be respectful of.......

"Hold on there varmint," to quote Yosemite Sam.

Maybe it is time that we start telling Muslims it is time for them to start changing, and that worrying over a book being destroyed, cartoons, naming a teddy bear, etc., is silly.

You see, if we don't start condemning some of the so-called cultural norms, gay killings, hanging of rape victims, stoning women, executing women for infidelity, honor killings, etc., then we are enabling the radicals who push these things.

Think of the NYT accepting KKK lynchings because that's the way things have been done in Alabama.

Now I grant you the shooting of the Koran is not helping STOP the war in Iraq.

But hey, we can STOP the war anytime we want just by leaving.

We went there to WIN. And the only way you can win is to change the cultural norms just as we did in Germany, and to a much larger degree, Japan. And to change them we must condemn them and demand they change.

Will we have the balls to do it? Of course not. We're opting for soothing everything over and hoping. But that isn't going to work. Sooner or later either our cultural norms or the cultural norms of the radicals are going to have to go. And as long as we don't push the point the average Muslim is going to assume that we don't have any real problems with them.