I will never write a book about the Trump presidential campaign, but if I were to do so, it would be called Logrolling With the Devil.
     Due partly to a need to disengage mentally from musings on American politics, if only for a few days, and partly to an energy-draining sinus infection, I didn't feel like writing, although I absorbed the latest domestic and foreign news.
     The massacre in San Bernardino, California, perpetrated by a husband and wife team; one, an American citizen, the other from Pakistan originally but later from Saudi Arabia, bore hallmarks of "Huh?" and "What the fuck?"  They met through an online match site.  He traveled to Saudi Arabia, they married in Mecca, returned to California.  The FBI investigation into the massacre and its creators revealed, to some surprise in the news media and in the vocal cords of some government authorities, that the couple, one of them dubbed by a terrorism "expert" on MSNBC as "the Black Widow,"--even though that term applied to the wife makes no sense--planned their attack for a year, building IEDs and modifying weaponry in their garage, sometimes late into the night with accompanying loud music.
     Syed Farook, the husband and all-American terrorist, worked as a food inspector, making a decent salary for a middle class family of three.  He and his wife were allegedly "radicalized" into close sympathy with anti-West/American groups, i.e. spawn of al-Qaeda, in 2013, a year before news broke in America of the existence of ISIS, itself a child of al-Qaeda in Iraq, itself inspired by al-Qaeda, itself originally Mujahideen fighters financed by the CIA and Osama bin Laden's construction family-based fortune with business ties to powerful groups and individuals worldwide, including members of the Bush family.
     The Farooks, committing themselves to fucking over at least a small part of America as early as two years ago (and Syed discussed with a friend the perpetrating of a massacre in 2012), before ISIS became known as a social network success, inspiring and recruiting through newer media that perhaps make irrelevant and pointless old methods of aerial bombardment and invasion, did not "fit the profile" of those in the West who might be disaffected targets of ISIS propaganda.  Young alienated Muslim men, rather, would more likely fit the profile.  The Farooks, however, got going with their violent plans in the midst of marriage, with pregnancy and baby thrown in.  The husband had what many would consider a good life: a good job, a faithful wife, a child, extended family support, American citizenship.  These elements do not add up, rationally, to people wanting to annihilate others and then themselves.
     Were the Farooks life-loving enough to provide their baby with a decent car seat?  Yes.  What is, as some young people used to say, "totally whack" about this couple, apart from their murderousness, is their act of leaving their six-month old baby with Farook's mother, and telling her they had a medical appointment.  True in a way, because what they did after that caused a lot of people in San Bernardino to require help from doctors.
     The example of a pregnant woman plotting with her husband a crime involving blasting the shit out of a lot of people with guns and bombs does not "fit the profile."  It makes no sense from what we think of as the nurturing archetype of the mother.  It does, perhaps, make sense in terms of what war, oppression, tyranny, terrorism by individuals and by states, does to some people and their descendants who often witness and feel the horrors.
     The Arab Spring happened in response to decades of U.S. and other western state-supported dictatorships pushing down on their peoples, until finally a time came of social media allowing the possibility of getting messages and images out to the world that made it difficult for U.S.-supported bastards like Hosni Mubarak to maintain power (bright flashlight beam on cockroach).  The same social media also became useful to malicious people with determination, guns, bombs, seized land from severely weakened states and the oil underneath (due ultimately to the acquisitive and inhumane decisions of Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, and others, all of whom were retroactively pardoned by President Obama to prevent them from ever facing war crimes charges in the Hague, making Obama an accessory after the fact as one aiding and comforting war criminals).
     The world seems to be trying to become one.  With the fulfillment of the Information Age, new technologies in communication are making everybody's business known to everybody.  It is a time of bloody birth struggle, but trying to fight the malign forces growing within it using nineteenth and twentieth century invasion methods and believing those tactics will "destroy ISIS," is ignoring San Bernardino, Paris on November 13, and the indefatigable sometimes evil spirit of humanity to adapt to new situations, inventing new tactics and strategies while hidebound minds in the Pentagon and equivalent mass-death-to-others mentalities in governments around the world believe, like the Farooks, the Paris and Bamako, Mali, attackers, that shooting and blowing up people will solve humanity's problems, and not, as Jesus knew, cause more violence, which will cause more violence.
     Donald Trump's recent proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States has been condemned even by Benjamin Netanyahu, a prolific killer of Muslims.  Trump's poll numbers orgasmed after he declared his anti-American, unconstitutional, and illegal proposal.  Within twenty-four hours of his cheered (by supporters) comments, a person in Philadelphia tossed from a moving car a pig's head at a mosque.  Trump stimulates hatred of Muslims, of Mexicans, of women, even of himself.  He also, from a national security standpoint, alienates Muslims generally around the world.  The frontrunner of the Republican party's struggle to regain the White House has proposed murdering families of ISIS members (a war crime, for deliberately targeting civilians is regarded thus by those who try to enforce international law, and it's also a practice of terrorists, making Trump a self-admitted advocate of terrorism).
     Trump now wants to close the borders to all Muslims, telling MSNBC's Willie Geist that everyone trying to enter the U.S. will be asked, "Are you a Muslim?"  Leaving it there, he didn't acknowledge that simply replying "No" to that unconstitutional question would defeat his method of filtering out all Muslims.  One need only lie to get into the country.  Trump knows about lying, but Geist didn't bother to press him on the epic stupidity of his proposed identification method.
     Trump's alienation of Muslims plays into the hands of ISIS recruitment.  Numerous politicians, security and intelligence experts, and retired military officers in America have acknowledged this.  Given this widely held view, why hasn't the Secret Service-protected Trump been visited by the FBI?  Aiding and abetting ISIS recruitment would get a normal American investigated, possibly arrested and prosecuted, resulting perhaps in prison.  Trump, with his bullhorn-style, has more influence than some schmuck operating at a low level in favor in ISIS.  Is Trump not helping ISIS?  Is ISIS America's declared enemy or not?
     If this dangerous new rhetorical bigotry won't dislodge Trump from his side of the log, we should acknowledge that even wealthy traitors, if their ratings are high enough, can walk freely, saying whatever they want, polluting their own countries with lies about innocent citizens, about faiths not their own, all for the glorification of the one true God, Donald J. Trump.

                                                                              Vic Neptune