Posted on 05/25/2004 6:13:26 PM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 05/27/2004 8:56:51 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
John Kerry says America shouldn't cut and run. George Bush says America mustn't. But we don't have to retreat ignominiously from the war on terrorism and from our other international responsibilities and commitments; we can recuse ourselves. We can explain to the court of global public opinion that, because America possesses the largest economy, the widest network of business relationships, and the only effective military force on earth, we have too great a vested interest in world events to render fair and impartial judgment. On every issue of geopolitical adjudication, from 9/11 to the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, America is a jury of cops and crime victims. A change in venire has already been called for by noisy street protestors, France and suchlike. Let's accede to the pre-emptory challenge and go home.
The benefits will be immediate. We can cut $300 billion from our defense budget. This will be almost enough to pay for the aging baby boomers' prescription drug benefits, which can now include Levitra, Botox and medicinal cannabis.
America will enjoy cleaner air and less traffic congestion as oil goes to $200 a barrel due to chaos in the Middle East. A U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will cause chaos, of course. Then again, a U.S. intervention in the Middle East has caused chaos already. And, during those periods of history when the U.S. was neither intervening in nor withdrawing from the Middle East, there was . . . chaos. The situation is akin to the famous complaint women have against men: failure to acknowledge that not every problem can be fixed. Sometimes the best thing is just a little sympathy. America had everyone's sympathy after the World Trade towers were attacked. We can get that sympathy back if we limit our foreign policy objectives to whining.
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That was great. Can you give me the source for that one?
P.J. in fine form!
One of my favorites:
"I have often been called a Nazi, and although it is unfair, I don't let it bother me. I don't let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has EVER had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal."
-- P.J. O'Rourke
And, again, another thanks for creating the list!
Howlin, a PJ-reading marathon is essential! ... And by the way, thanks for the great live thread last night. Got to it late and was up 'til 2 a.m. getting through it -- happily!
take pity on a city boy misplaced in Brooks County GA and add me to your pinglist, puh-leeeease.
Thanks so much for the full post!
Add me to the list please!
Please put me on this ping list!
please ad me to your ping list.
"Republicans run for office on a platform of how horrible government is, then they get elected and prove it."
I use that one regularly along with his gag about how God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a liberal,
I must admit, however, that Mark Steyn is giving P.J. a good run. Steyn is certainly more prolific.
They don't get much more reptilian than I ...
Don't know if you already got a response, but that was from Holidays in Hell, in an essay entitled "Among the Euro-Weenines". The amazing thing is that it was written almost twenty years ago, yet still describes most of Europe perfectly today.
Something tells me that P.J. would not have written this.
Bang 'em P.J. bump
I am deeply saddened, shocked, and a little aroused. Maybe I should consider legal action.
Would you mind adding me to the ping list? P.J. is PFG.
Please add me to your list of sterile, lonely, child-men who'd love to read more PJ and the like.
Damn. Shows how alcohol and sex have ruined me, I suppose - please add me to the ping list.
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