Cackle.. cackle.. Ulp!.. chomp..
Ah, would 'twere so simple - scaled up to 5'-Rodent-size. Redmond Mountain Oysters on the half-shill.
I kinda like Rick Moen's little sig
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves that make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing. --Gamel Abdel Nasser
But I have no problem agreeing too, that.. just often enough (!) we indeed went in to [something] with rather fine sentiments - and occasionally we even got out with those intact!
As a few eloquent posts in the past, 'in defense'.. have illustrated: dismissing Muricans as Just the more silly (and occasionally transparently self-serving) exploits would suggest - is as inane a POV as the pure-jingoism is. {sigh}
At least we aren't firing our best State Dept. 'experts on er communism' - for
likely bein communists anymore. But if we really are gonna be Pax Americana indefinitely, methinks we have GOT to discover a way to bring sane, articulate debate into our [ugh] 'political process': for maybe the First time?
I mean - we can muddle along with all this sloganeering stuff, when just keeping the trains running. We can't! run the entire &^#$& World! on that babble. 'Cause if we do: Imagine Rev Foulwell ... .... in 37 language translations.
Rest case.
George Carlin for Minister of Plain &^$&*%# Speech on complex topics.
Cheers,
A.