Bill O'Reilly: You're Either With Us Or ...

Bill O'Reilly was so angry that San Francisco voters decided this week that military recruiters ought not be allowed in our public schools. Here's what he said on his radio show:

And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.

This is a fantastic example of how ideologically driven the right-wing "war on terror" is. The neocons and right-wing nuts, like O'Reilly, don't care about keeping Americans safe or supporting democracy (if not in San Francisco, certainly not in Baghdad). The "war on terror" is about American power and supremacy over the world. Not only will the right-wing turn against foreign nations who refuse to accept our military, political, and economic supremacy, the right-wing will also easily turn against Americans. If they have to lock themselves up in the Pentagon or the Fox Broadcasting headquarters and wage war on the rest of the country as well as the rest of the world, they will.

It's kind of like that scene in Spies Like Us when the U.S. General discovers that the missile fired was not intercepted by the laser. He and others will remain safe in an underground bunker as this missile will undoubtedly spark a nuclear war, but he is prepared to accept this consequence and live in the bunker for years "to preserve the American way of life." Down with San Francisco and any other liberal/progressive American cities. Let them all burn if it will preserve Bill O'Reilly's view of the American way of life.

The crazy thing is that after O'Reilly's statements, I think Coit tower is more at risk from right-wing, homegrown terrorists than Al Qaeda.