It doesn’t have to be the neighbors of an Iraqi translator working for the Americans in Mosul who threaten death and kidnapping of family members for his belief he can help the invaders turn violence around. This is reported vividly in the Op Ed section of the NYTimes this morning. It makes you wonder why we are there. If people of good will want to help to sort out the mess (when they allowed Saddam Hussein to bully them) and the Americans (in Iraq solely with good intentions, [ahem]) that is in that country the “Simpson” factor appears.
I don’t know of too many people who are unaware of the O.J. Simpson who escaped punishment (except for the civil conviction requiring him to pay the victims family some $33,000,000.00 – still unpaid) for the alleged killing of his wife and a friend. Mr. Simpson is a bully. His chutzpah knows no bounds. He is rubbing his freedom to do and say what he wants into everyone’s face, grins and continues to do outrageous things.
Some of the things Mr. Simpson does you will recognize. You know people like him. First there are his delusions of grandeur. He got away with killing the mother of his children and her friend and will not hide in a corner but is out there in the open declaring that “IF” he did it; this is the way he would have done it. He is also amoral. He does not see, as others plainly cannot miss, that his actions are beyond any moral system that most of us recognize. He is a law unto himself and ignores all checks and balances for outrageous actions.
Mr. Simpson is, like some others you know but only vaguely understand while they do this thing right in your face, a pathological liar. Lying is second nature to the one who thinks he or she is KING or other signs of delusions of grandeur. Such a person is incapable of empathy for victims of others or the intentional damage he inflicts on all of us by his braying out in speeches and books that he is, by his own creation, superior to everyone else. There are no boundaries that he cannot cross nor any dark deed he cannot commit.
Like other vulgar people you have met, Mr. Simpson cannot cease to demonstrate his ignorance and crass behavior for there are rules, you know – but they are for other people, not for him.
He is a big man physically and has had a famous run of luck on the playing field. But his soul is small and he knows it. He is a tiny person in a big body – a bully who has a Napoleonic complex and believes he can “con” people into buying his book and enshrining turning falsehood into truth and economic advantage. He is selling, and are you buying it?