American Taliban, Part MCMXXXVIII

Jerry Falwell today, on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer":

"Let's go over there to the Middle East, even if it takes over 10 years, and blow up those barbarians in the name of the Lord."

It occurs to me that a lot of Republicans, including a lot of Christians, have no problem with this kind of racism. The answer is always something like "They're the scum, not us. WE have to kill them first!" I'm sure the janjaweed in Sudan do the same kind of rationalizing technique before their butchery of Christian Africans.

Of course, the rank hypocrisy of such statements from the "soldiers of mercy" has been known since at least 1975, release date of Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."