Common Sense

You know, the one where it seems like everyone else on the planet is fucking insane, except for you. Well, I got that feeling when I read Seymour Hersh’s story that we’re finalizing our plans to attack Iran.

Why are we attacking Iran? Because they are supposedly behind some attacks on American soldiers in Iraq. Well, if we didn’t have any soldiers in Iraq, they couldn’t do that, could they? Problem solved!

And does anyone remember that thing we had going on a few years ago? The war on terror, or something or other? Why can’t we fight that war. Instead, we seem to be siding with al Qaeda and other Sunni wannabes to attack Shia muslims for some reason I have yet to actually fathom.

We’re picking sides in a cultural war and that never ends well.

The war on terror was sold to us as a new kind of war, a war without borders or nation states. In a lot of ways, that’s true. But the administration didn’t listen to their own rhetoric. All of these relics of the Cold War couldn’t adjust to the change in strategy. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith and Rice all have this flawed thinking of fighting proxy wars around the world with another superpower. So we attacked the Taliban (which didn’t actually attack us, either, but they did harbor the guys who did) then we attacked Iraq and next, Iran.

And every other day, the war that was supposed to be a new kind of war has been compared to every single other war we’ve ever fought. Even the American Revolution! How the hell does that even make since. Bush can’t be George Washington because Washington never fought a land war in Asia, which anyone who has ever played risk knows is a stupid thing to do.

In the more than five years since terrorists launched an attack inside the United States, not one single thing has been done to improve our security. Nothing really. Sure, you have to take off your shoes at the airport, but a freighter full of plutonium won’t be checked at any of America’s ports.

The FBI considers drug cases terrorism-related. Not Columbian narcoterrorism, a kid getting busted for selling weed is a victory in the war on terror to these clowns.

It’s a fucking miracle that bin Laden hasn’t set off a nuclear weapon in our country yet. It’s not because George Bush is keeping us safe, its simply because bin Laden bides his time and he picks good commanders to lead his assaults. They are waiting and training inside Pakistan as we speak, and when they launch another successful attack, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We elected and re-elected the jackass-in-chief and sidekick The Penguin.

We’re bringing the apocalypse on ourselves. God help us all.

You know, the one where it seems like everyone else on the planet is fucking insane, except for you. Well, I got that feeling when I read Seymour Hersh’s story that we’re finalizing our plans to attack Iran.

Why are we attacking Iran? Because they are supposedly behind some attacks on American soldiers in Iraq. Well, if we didn’t have any soldiers in Iraq, they couldn’t do that, could they? Problem solved!

And does anyone remember that thing we had going on a few years ago? The war on terror, or something or other? Why can’t we fight that war. Instead, we seem to be siding with al Qaeda and other Sunni wannabes to attack Shia muslims for some reason I have yet to actually fathom.

We’re picking sides in a cultural war and that never ends well.

The war on terror was sold to us as a new kind of war, a war without borders or nation states. In a lot of ways, that’s true. But the administration didn’t listen to their own rhetoric. All of these relics of the Cold War couldn’t adjust to the change in strategy. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith and Rice all have this flawed thinking of fighting proxy wars around the world with another superpower. So we attacked the Taliban (which didn’t actually attack us, either, but they did harbor the guys who did) then we attacked Iraq and next, Iran.

And every other day, the war that was supposed to be a new kind of war has been compared to every single other war we’ve ever fought. Even the American Revolution! How the hell does that even make since. Bush can’t be George Washington because Washington never fought a land war in Asia, which anyone who has ever played risk knows is a stupid thing to do.

In the more than five years since terrorists launched an attack inside the United States, not one single thing has been done to improve our security. Nothing really. Sure, you have to take off your shoes at the airport, but a freighter full of plutonium won’t be checked at any of America’s ports.

The FBI considers drug cases terrorism-related. Not Columbian narcoterrorism, a kid getting busted for selling weed is a victory in the war on terror to these clowns.

It’s a fucking miracle that bin Laden hasn’t set off a nuclear weapon in our country yet. It’s not because George Bush is keeping us safe, its simply because bin Laden bides his time and he picks good commanders to lead his assaults. They are waiting and training inside Pakistan as we speak, and when they launch another successful attack, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We elected and re-elected the jackass-in-chief and sidekick The Penguin.

We’re bringing the apocalypse on ourselves. God help us all.