Notes from a Graduate Course in Twentieth-Century Political History from the Year 2511
[Excerpt of a quote from the preface to the textbook to the course.]
Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,
Whose table Earth – whose dice were human bones.
The Age of Bronze [1823], st I Lord Byron
Idi Amin created a tribally-based government of supporters in Uganda who relished annihilating other tribes in their country. He not only bragged of his troop’s mass murders, but liked to comment to his visiting dignitaries and reporters on how many of his victim’s bodies he had eaten. Idi Amin enjoyed taking a personal interest in the victim’s torture and mutilation before their severed body parts were added to the soup Id made of his enemies’ bodies. Such was his taste in evil that he often added the victim’s family to take part in his festivities before they became part of his ghoulish feast. He enjoyed seeing the look on a father’s face as his daughter was repeatedly raped by members of the Ugandan military before being hacked apart slowly with machetes. The agony of a father watching his sons and daughters being violated and destroyed added savor to the stew he consumed with his troops later in the evening.
Like Stalin, he was a true student of the forces of anti-life and was able to escape his consummate sins to settle down and live out his old age in a well-appointed and heavily protected compound in Saudi Arabia among the some of the most devout and religious Moslems in the world. Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia was more democratic; they merely wanted to eliminate anyone who was literate. Since the population of the tiny country was so small, they were only able to annihilate three million people. While the sum total was small considered against the Great Killers of the West, it was still a respectable showing for a Third World country. Pol Pot had managed to kill a larger percentage of his fellow citizens than any dictator before him. Since he had no apparent religion except Communism, when he was captured after the fall of the government of the U.S.S.R., there was no place to hide. He was unceremoniously executed by Cambodia’s new government after his final fall from power.
Later in nineteen nineties, two madmen competed in Iran and Iraq for the prize of insanity and Godlessness. Iran was “blessed” by Allah when Ahatolla Kolmanhi engineered the fall of the shah and began “Allah’s” own purges through his fanatical intermediaries. Iran was to be brought back to the fold of Allah by torturing, murdering and terrorizing its populace into cowed submission to Allah’s Will as determined by the medievally-minded mullahs. Immediately, his dictatorial and murderous neighbor to the northwest, Sadam Hussain, attacked Iran and attempted to secure Iran’s oil fields along the Iran-Iraq border by force. After the “Holy” battle of Iranian warriors bogged down against the heavily armed and fortified Iraqi troops, the chief mullah of Iran had an inspiration that would have befitted Stalin or Hitler in its depth of evil. In a grand gesture of defiance of the commandment of loving kindness towards children demanded by the Holy Koran, Ahatolla Kolmanhi sent human waves of thirsty fifteen-year-old boys dressed in rags and armed with sticks against Iraqi machine guns and tanks. The carnage of the nation’s youth was nearly total.