Damascus Gate
Last night's game was a disaster (7-2 BoSox victory) and at this point today doesn't look like it is going to turn out any better. Whatever happened to our pitching staff? I believe I have to turn my attention from one topic that makes my blood boil to a different topic that makes my blood boil. Politics.
Today's post is dedicated to any of my left leaning bretheren who find themselves in thrall to 9/11 conspiracy theorys. Read the book "Damascus Gate", by Robert Stone. I picked it up thinking it was a literary work dealing with the Middle East. It turned out to more of a political potboiler. More LeCarre than Greene. However, it is extremely well written.
The story involves an American reporter in Israel, Chris Lucas who is looking, without much success, for a "big story". He's in the right place and eventually he gets the right story and a little bit more in the bargain. It all comes about when he decides to co-write a book with a local psychiatrist about something called "The Jerusalem Syndrome". It describes people who come to the Holy Land and become hyper religious and then begin to think God has a special job picked out just for them, usually something destructive.
In Lucas' attempts to research this subject he gets involved with a kind of screwy cast of characters and a plot to destroy the Haram esh-Sharif, the Temple Mount, to make way for the building of the Third Temple. Which in the Christian world is one of the signs of the coming Rapture, and for Jews is something that has to happen in order for the Messiah to arrive. So it's kind of a win-win deal, unless you happen to be Muslim. Then you're kind of SOL, because one of you holiest shrines has just been blown up.
At this point you may be asking, what does this have to do with 9/11. Well, I don't think it gives too much away to say there is a government angle driving this whole plot, and it seems totally plausible the way it is laid out.
My thought after reading the book was that I could see how this kind of thing could be set up, by the government, and have mistakes happen and all of a sudden something you thought you could control turns into two burning buildings in Manhattan and 3,000 people dead. As I said at the beginning I don't buy into any of the improbable conspiracy theories surrounding Bush and 9/11, but after reading "Damascus Gate", I had to give it a little more thought.
Personal to Muggs - "You're mother's still the only other woman for me." Love, Dad
Today's post is dedicated to any of my left leaning bretheren who find themselves in thrall to 9/11 conspiracy theorys. Read the book "Damascus Gate", by Robert Stone. I picked it up thinking it was a literary work dealing with the Middle East. It turned out to more of a political potboiler. More LeCarre than Greene. However, it is extremely well written.
The story involves an American reporter in Israel, Chris Lucas who is looking, without much success, for a "big story". He's in the right place and eventually he gets the right story and a little bit more in the bargain. It all comes about when he decides to co-write a book with a local psychiatrist about something called "The Jerusalem Syndrome". It describes people who come to the Holy Land and become hyper religious and then begin to think God has a special job picked out just for them, usually something destructive.
In Lucas' attempts to research this subject he gets involved with a kind of screwy cast of characters and a plot to destroy the Haram esh-Sharif, the Temple Mount, to make way for the building of the Third Temple. Which in the Christian world is one of the signs of the coming Rapture, and for Jews is something that has to happen in order for the Messiah to arrive. So it's kind of a win-win deal, unless you happen to be Muslim. Then you're kind of SOL, because one of you holiest shrines has just been blown up.
At this point you may be asking, what does this have to do with 9/11. Well, I don't think it gives too much away to say there is a government angle driving this whole plot, and it seems totally plausible the way it is laid out.
My thought after reading the book was that I could see how this kind of thing could be set up, by the government, and have mistakes happen and all of a sudden something you thought you could control turns into two burning buildings in Manhattan and 3,000 people dead. As I said at the beginning I don't buy into any of the improbable conspiracy theories surrounding Bush and 9/11, but after reading "Damascus Gate", I had to give it a little more thought.
Personal to Muggs - "You're mother's still the only other woman for me." Love, Dad
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