Rant: we need leaders who'll prevent terrorism, not cause it. Why the fuck are our leaders not doing their job?

From the NY Times:
"The war in Iraq has been increasingly unpopular here, with taunts that Mr. Blair had become President Bush's poodle. Now, as long predicted and feared, his support of the war appears to have cost British lives at home.
No mainstream politician would say so out loud, but George Galloway, the maverick, onetime Labor legislator who left the party, had no hesitation. "We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain," he said. "Tragically, Londoners have now paid the price of the government ignoring such warnings."
For Mr. Blair, the challenge now is how the solidarity can be maintained against arguments such as those advanced by Mr. Galloway.
"When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated," he said in a recorded address to the nation. "When they seek to change our country or our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed. When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm."

WHAT a totally ridiculous statement. There is a massive failure of leadership in the U.S. and U.K. And when our people die, what we get is nothing but therapy from Bush or Blair, about how the terrorists hate our freedoms, and that we will stand up to them and win, because ours are the values of life and hope, and theirs are the values of death and destruction.

What utter balls. The terrorists have an agenda. It has absolutely sweet blow-all to do with hating our values or our freedom. Give me a fucking break. They want us out of the Middle-East. They want Israel to stop giving Palestine a hard time. They don't like the royal Saudis ripping off the oil there and living high on it. That's their fucking agenda. Do our leaders address it? No. They start a goddam war with Iraq, for chrissake. Of all the dumb things in the whole wide fucking world. Like Howard Dean said years ago, the war in Iraq hasn't made us safer. It's made life more dangerous for us, as London knows now. They bombed the Madrid subway, and Spain got out of Iraq. End of story. Spain's new government addressed the terrorists' agenda, and now their people can sleep safely.

But our fucking leaders are the #1 boneheads on earth. What war on terror? We can't find them to make war on them. What can we do? I'll tell you what we can do. I may be a powerless asshole, but I have half a brain, unlike Bush and Blair, who have snot for brains on a sunny day, and shit for brains when the chips are down. Here's what we can do:

1. Get the hell out of Iraq. It's their country. We got rid of Saddam. Let them hang him, let them have a civil war, let them have a Shiite government, let them ban miniskirts or whatever the fuck they want to do. It's none of our business. As long as they sell us oil, let them fuck up their destiny or fulfill it as they see fit. Iraq for the Iraqis, and let's leave them to it.
2. Tell Israel to make peace with Palestine, or they can say goodbye to our gazillion dollars of aid every year. Very simple. You want our money, you make peace.
3. Give interest-free loans to all Palestinian people who have a business or want to start one. Give them outright money to build schools and universities. Give them all the money they need to have a running country in 5 years time.
4. Buy up all the goddam nukes in Russia before some poor Russian soldier sells one of them to a terrorist.
5. Put metal detectors at every subway entrance in New York City and every other subway system in the world, like they have in Madrid. Stop giving dollars to Omaha and Indiana to protect them from terrorism, for chrissake.
6. Spend gazillions on spy operations to infiltrate every Muslim organization, mosque, student body, and young men's association on earth and keep tabs on these guys. There should be more spies than members in every sleeper cell of Al Qaeda.
7. Endow all Arab universities with political chairs that teach Western political ideas.
8. Translate Western literature and political books into Arabic, and give them away for free, or half-price. Dub Western movies into Arabic, and show them all over the Middle-East. Give them rap and rock 'n roll. Forget about propaganda. Just flood them with our pop culture. Jeans, more jeans. McDonalds everywhere. Forests of Christmas trees.
9. Give money to Al-Jazeera to have them do their broadcasts in English all over the world so we can see what the Arabs are seeing and what they are thinking.
10. Do something about Saudi-Arabia. That's the country we should've invaded instead of Iraq. That's where the 9/11 hijackers came from. That's where Osama comes from. The Saudis are our enemies. Their Wahabi religion, the most extreme fundamentalist brand of Islam there is, is being exported all over the East and the West with our dollars for their oil. The Bush family and the Saudi family may have been tight for decades, and Bush may like walking hand-in-hand with Saudi princes like an ad for gay marriage, but let's get real: these bastards are our enemies. Our leaders shouldn't be friends with the leaders of our enemies, just because their daddies have brandy together and remember each others' birthdays. Bush, maybe you can't take the silver spoon out of your mouth, but please, take the Saudi dick out of your ass.
11. Stop, stop working for Osama Bin-Laden. Bush and Blair, stop being his lackeys by delivering new recruits to him every day with your stupid actions and stupid words.
12. And for chrissake, stop saying the terrorists hate our freedom. That's just you giving us cheap cliches because you're not using that snot you call brains in your heads. We don't need your therapy. You need therapy. What we need is action. You're not preventing terrorism. You're encouraging it, you're stimulating it, you're giving it all the room in the world to grow, YOU'RE CAUSING TERRORISM INSTEAD OF PREVENTING IT. You're sworn to protect us. So shut the fuck up and do your job!

Read this book, by the guy who ran the Osama Bin Laden unit for the CIA. If he were president, we'd be safe from terrorism.