PJ O'ROURKE: Why Americans hate foreign policy

The Daily Telegraph ^ | September 18, 2004 | P J O'Rourke

[JustAnotherSavage]

Something new from O'Rourke! Thanks!!!!

[Hoplite]

And he quit negotiating with North Korea about its atomic weapons for the same reason that you'd quit jawing with a crazy person about the gun he was waving and call 999.

"Hello, Operator! Give me the number for 911!"

[NCSteve]

PJ is awesome. Absolutely no one has American politics nailed down as well as PJ O'Rourke.

My favorite PJ quote:

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"

[Strategerist]

I presume the English equivalent of 911 is 999.....

[July 4th]

Yep. Great article!

[nunya bidness]

He's always good for a new tagline.

[Hoplite]

Correct, but you'd have to dial "100" to get an operator to tell you that.

= )

[Defend the Second]

How 'bout this one from P.J. (paraphrasing a little):

"Democrats call Republicans 'religious-nuts with guns.' Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns."

And if you can find one, do yourself a favor: read "National Lampoon's 1964 High School Yearbook." This is an early P.J. comic masterpiece.

[Bogey78O]

http://www.ldb.org/rourke.htm

"People with a mission to save the earth want the earth to seem worse than it is so their mission will look more important."

[michaelt]

I was a Republican Party Reptile before I was a South Park Republican. Thanks for the post.

[wimpycat]

Wow.

[JustAnotherSavage]

"Got a new tagline!"

Dang!! Ya beat me!!

Was that amazing or what!

[Colosis]

He's a good man, PJ is.

[JustAnotherSavage]

I thought you'd enjoy this one!

[Horatio Gates]

No bullshit here. PJ just sold me a book. Great post.

[Rome2000]

Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties

Gee, what are the chances that a bunch of subhuman maniacs whose very religion glorifies suicide bombing and whose sole purpose in life is to exterminate Jews and Christians will get their hands on nuclear or biological weapon and use it to inflict not just 3,000 casualties in America in about an hour but 500,000?

I'd say it is a certainty that this will happen here in the next 20 years.

When that happens, what Franks says will happen is a sure bet.

What happens when the enemy is undistinguishable from the civilian, and you continue to take casualties but cannot retaliate for fear of killing the innocent?

What happens is that you have no choice but to wipe out or at a minmum decimate the populations of the offending countries.

You jail all of the leftists, treasonous Democrats, and Islamonazi symps, take the same weapon of mass destruction that was used against your population, and go over and take out the middle east.

3-5 million dead ragheads.

Outlaw Islam to boot.

Too bad it can't just be done now, but apparently we'll have to lose about half a million on our side first before it becomes politically acceptable.

But make no mistake about it, this WILL happen within the next 20 years.

[NCSteve]

I remember reading that way back when I was in high school.

Didn't PJ do all those deliciously horrid Santa Claus satires in National Lampoon back in the early seventies? I think they were called Black Christmas or something similar.

[GVnana]

If we'd wanted foreign entanglements, we would have stayed home.

My line!

[perfect stranger]

"Peace Kills" is his new book. I was in the bookstore a few weeks ago and found it. I didn't even know he had new one out. Albeit the only new material is the introduction, the chapters are previously released.

This link is to C-SPAN's episode on June 22, 2004
Featured on Book TV:
P.J. O'Rourke's "Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism" Arlington, VA

[hershey]

Ahhhhh, thank you.