Some people aspire to be spies, yet some find no party or country that wants their services. Others, meanwhile, have achieved their aspirations. But they are not spies; they instead provide services to the enemies of Arabs and Muslims and are embraced as a result, and are rewarded at the expense of their countries and nations, and even their close relatives. I call such people political lowlifes. While the last word is a slang word, and has synonyms in the dictionary, I find ‘lowlife' to be more than adequate. There is a very intelligent and cultured Iraqi who also comes from a good family. However, he is a political ‘lowlife' who entered Iraq on the back of an American tank, and played a big role in the falsification of the premises for the Iraq war. He has the blood of victims on his hands, victims who include hundreds of thousands of children during the embargo on Iraq, and one million casualties in the aftermath of the criminal invasion afterwards. I do not think that Saddam Hussein did more harm to his country than this man, who is still trying. Recently, he called for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, after having paved the way for the Americans to invade his (former) country. It seems that this man has now decided to switch American colonialism with Iranian colonialism. I know that there is a black sheep in every family, but I never imagined a black sheep could be so shady. Equally unscrupulous is a Lebanese man from Arnon, a Shiite town in South Lebanon, who reminds me of what a poet from the South also once said: Perhaps the worst thing a man may be scolded for/ is that for the sake of an opportunity he became an opportunist. Arnon's ingrate son is a university professor and a thinker. But he is also an opportunist, or a political ‘lowlife'. He took the side of his country's enemies, and competed with the Iraqi political ‘lowlife' in inciting war, and like him, he did not backtrack on his stance, and has the blood of martyrs on his hands. In fact, he is so despicable that the American John Taylor recently wrote an article about him and people like him, entitled “Yellow Journalism at Its Nastiest”. In every country, there must be a thousand political ‘lowlifes'. Take for example the Syrian lowlife who, before the recent confrontations, went to Washington to offer the Americans and the lobby his cooperation against the government of his country (I say again: This predated the current confrontations). There are also those who, before and after this man, contacted Western countries, and even Israel, to assist them against the governments in their countries. All the Arab countries are undemocratic and have no independent rule of law, or even accountability, transparency, or proper rights or equality for women. Nonetheless, this does not justify that an Arab citizen seek the support of a known enemy against his country, because the enemy does not really want the beleaguered country in question to become an Athenian democracy. Instead, it wants more ruin for it, a civil war, and to steal its natural resources. We are all like My Lai in Vietnam, with the American soldier saying: “It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save.” But I do not call on any Arab dissident to practice dissent in his country, because the dissident will be killed, and perhaps his children will be killed before his own eyes. Instead, I call on dissidents to choose their allies carefully, because we do not want Muammar Gaddafi to be succeeded by terrorist gangs, but instead by the patriot people of the country. If there is any consolation, it would be that the political ‘lowlife' type is present in every country, especially the United States, where political lowlifes are also known by their other name: Likudniks (but not Jews, because the majority of American Jews are moderate liberals). The neocons are all examples of the ‘lowlife' type, who sold their countries in the service of Israel, and helped kill thousands of young American soldiers along with hundreds of thousands of Muslims, all to protect a country of war criminals and thieves, and which has no right to exist until the Palestinians – the owners of the land – give it such a right. There are hundreds of such Likudniks, who made the United States the most hated country around the world. Today, I choose John Bolton as an example, that awful extremist who represented the U.S. at the United Nations even when he sought to level its headquarters, and who served Israel alone all throughout his rotten political career. His current political stances include inciting an American war on Iran to take out a nonexistent military nuclear program, i.e. killing young Americans yet again, and proposing ways to block a vote at the UN General Assembly on Palestinian statehood. People like him are not only the enemies of America, the Arabs and the Muslims, but of all of humanity (I continue tomorrow with a related topic). [email protected]
