So Much Delusion

A voice purporting to be that of Osama bin Laden took credit for the attempted bombing over Detroit as his warped gift to punctuate our Christmas season. Whether the mentality is Wahhab-inspired or from Iranian Shia fanatics, I am continually amazed that any person could be so deluded as to think the path to paradise is paved with dead innocents. Whether a Nigerian man-child with trouble relating to women really expects seventy-two virgins to be delivered if he manages to die in his cause or a Sunni woman (or Shia for that matter) sees her only path from the wretched existence of day to day life behind a veil is to strap on a suicide bomb belt and go out with a bang, it is truly sad that any religion could be manipulated to countenance such thought much less such acts. But then, where honor killing prevails and women are still chatteled, one may see a quick escape as preferable to years of painful submission or death at the hands of one's own family. There was a different kind of delusion on display on the Sunday policy wonk shows with Robert Gibbs out hawking that the Massachusetts loss was not a rejection of Obama but another reflection of the voter discontent that brought Obama to power. This of course was mere posturing- a snow job sales pitch that Gibbs does not believe. No rational politician could think losing the "Kennedy seat" in the most liberal state was anything but a rejection of Obamaism and all that it entails. Let us hope that Gibbs is not in such a fog but was being cynical for the few true acolytes that might still buy pure nonsense.