His bio at Huffington Post calls Bill Maher “… one of the most politically astute comedians in America today,” who has garnered “the respect and admiration of millions of fans.” Given his latest gaffe recently on “Larry King Live,” that’s pretty sad:
“But — the people in Fort Dix, New Jersey. They were Serbian or Albanian or something.”
Serbian or Albanian or something. Granted, when it comes to the Balkans, this is an above-average statement, even on Capitol Hill. But it’s like saying, “But the Sept. 11 attackers — they were Israeli or Saudi or something.”
Serbian, Albanian, Christian, Muslim — those Balkan folks are all so interchangeable and expendable. Why differentiate among them and confuse policy?
Can’t we just call them all “Balki” like on that ’80s sitcom “Perfect Strangers”? Weren’t Latka and Simka from there too?
Here’s a clue for Maher. It’s jihad. Who’s most likely trying to kill us? Christian Serbs, or Muslim Albanians? I’d sleep better at night too if Serbs were the ones we had to worry about. But the Serbs, who have had our backs in two World Wars, have never attacked us. Their enemies, however, have.
Maher also offered some insights regarding Iraq: “Afghanistan was right. Exactly. But we have spread this situation … where there was a small amount of people who were out to get us, and [we] made it into a situation where basically anyone who has heard the name Allah is grumbling about us and thinking about going after us.”
For all those people who say, “I supported Afghanistan, but this Iraq thing really stirred the hornet’s nest, etc. …”: As if the rational folks “thinking about going after us” were cool with us going into Afghanistan. Only when we went into Iraq, a country of oppressed Muslims whose secularish ruler they despised, only then did the nut jobs turn against America. Sure.
A little reminder of the scene in the month following Sept. 11, when the Bush administration was deciding on a response: Anti-American hate rallies sprang up across the Muslim world, with Muslims dancing around burning American flags.
We hadn’t even done anything yet except get attacked — we were only figuring out what to do — but Muslims were protesting in anticipation of what we were only thinking about doing.
Revenge was already being threatened for the retaliation that we hadn’t yet decided on. I got worried the revenge would come before we could even answer the first attack. Which would have given us two things to retaliate for. Can you imagine how mad THAT would have made them? Maybe the pro-Afghanistan-only folks believe it was in anticipation of how we might respond to an attack that incited the Sept. 11 attacks in the first place!
No sooner had Maher flaunted his ignorance than did a senator duplicate it during Sunday’s Democratic debate. Joe Biden repeated the Democratic mantra and biggest myth of our time — that the U.S. under Bill Clinton did everything right when it “stopped a genocide” by “Milochevich” (Biden’s pronunciation), without losing one American life. Biden then suggested that Kosovo should be a template for Iraq.
Coming from a Democrat, it makes sense, considering that the Kosovo war allied us with Iran and al Qaeda and handed the region to the jihadists, who have been busy further Islamicizing Albanians (who, in case you haven’t heard, staged the “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” — a la the Palestinian “genocide” victims).
In February, a Bosnian “refugee” shot nine Americans at a Salt Lake City mall, killing five. Three months later, four Albanian “refugees” were charged with planning to massacre American soldiers at Fort Dix. How much longer will we keep up the charade?
Here’s a quiz: The next Balkan-based plot against the U.S. will most likely come from A) Albanians; B) Bosnians; C) Serbs; or D) Duh — A or B?
You can be sure that if Kosovo had been a Bush war, Maher and every other ignoramus would know an Albanian from a Serb from a Bosnian.
And lawmakers wouldn’t be able to pretend we did the right thing in that long-term suicide mission.
Julia Gorin is an opinion writer and comedian blogging at JuliaGorin.com and PoliticalMavens.com.
