Beware the holiday lull
Going down the front page of Hines Sight is like reading a greatest hits list of bad news. This is your official warning: Don't get lulled into passivity by visions of sugarplums and the stress of trudging through suburban super-malls to find the latest Tickle-Me Elmo. I have a feeling the powers that be are counting on you not paying attention this time of year – the stakes are a wee bit high for you to let them be right.
First came the President's buildup of Naval forces in the Persian Gulf – part of of the conspicuous Bush/Ahmadinejad pissing contest. Who's more powerful? Who's more scary? Whose God is better? Who has a nicer haircut? Honestly, why is our President playing a game of chicken with a religious fanatic who has nothing to lose? If Ahmadinejad gets his country destroyed in the name of Islam, fighting evil America and what not, he'll probably get 1000 extra virgins in heaven. If we decide to clash swords, all we get is an even more bloated deficit, countless more lost lives, and even worse standing in the international community.
Not worth it.
And we're talking about the draft again, really? I thought we had already written off Representative Rangel, who just a few weeks ago admitted he was going to try to reinstate the draft, as a crazy person and put this idea back to sleep in the graveyard of bad ideas.
But for some reason Selective Service is "testing its machinery."
Don't worry though. The White House says it doesn't have plans to bring back the draft. That allays all my fears. It's not like they've fibbed to us in the past – we'll give them a pass for the WMDs, the cooked intelligence, and, of course, that whole "we're winning the war in Iraq" thing.
So enjoy the holidays everyone! Give your children nice presents, hugs and kisses, and all those warm things we do on the holidays. It's not long before you are kissing them goodbye when they're drafted to fight our war against Iran.
(cross-posted at Hines Sight)
First came the President's buildup of Naval forces in the Persian Gulf – part of of the conspicuous Bush/Ahmadinejad pissing contest. Who's more powerful? Who's more scary? Whose God is better? Who has a nicer haircut? Honestly, why is our President playing a game of chicken with a religious fanatic who has nothing to lose? If Ahmadinejad gets his country destroyed in the name of Islam, fighting evil America and what not, he'll probably get 1000 extra virgins in heaven. If we decide to clash swords, all we get is an even more bloated deficit, countless more lost lives, and even worse standing in the international community.
Not worth it.
And we're talking about the draft again, really? I thought we had already written off Representative Rangel, who just a few weeks ago admitted he was going to try to reinstate the draft, as a crazy person and put this idea back to sleep in the graveyard of bad ideas.
But for some reason Selective Service is "testing its machinery."
Don't worry though. The White House says it doesn't have plans to bring back the draft. That allays all my fears. It's not like they've fibbed to us in the past – we'll give them a pass for the WMDs, the cooked intelligence, and, of course, that whole "we're winning the war in Iraq" thing.
So enjoy the holidays everyone! Give your children nice presents, hugs and kisses, and all those warm things we do on the holidays. It's not long before you are kissing them goodbye when they're drafted to fight our war against Iran.
(cross-posted at Hines Sight)
Labels: international politics, National Politics, war
