Wednesday, April 21, 2004
FINDING SOMEONE ELSE TO HATE
An Editorial
By Pillsbury
File this one under "as if it could'nt get any worse." With our troops under constant attack in Iraq from a union of Islamic extremists of the bin Laden, Sunni and Shiia stripe and Saddam Hussein loyalists (only we could create such unity), with Afganistan returning to its previous roll as opium central, and the Bush administration beginning to resemble a bad Maude episode (hold on, was there ever a bad Maude episode?), now we find out that the people who hate us the most - Arabs - hate us even more.
This gives me pause to reflect: should we reciprocate and hate the French even more? Should this hatred continue down the line? Should we hate the French that much - I mean, after all, they've given us all those great movies, like. . . Le Femme Nikita and . . . you know, . . . that other one. And what about their culinary skills - who else would have thought to stir fry slimy garden pests. And it was their leadership in Indochina that got us to defend the burgeoning democratic state of Vietnam.
I say we stop hating the French and start hating the Spanish.
I'm not alone on this - the President is with me in hating the Spaniards. Granted, their food is good and your average Spaniard is probably just the same today as he was back when the Spanish PM was one of our principal allies in Iraq. But, Bush has taught us that it is not the character of the people of a country that make them natural allies, its the President's determination of whether the leader of that country has a good soul.
The current PM in Spain has always been against the war and said that he would pull the Spanish troops out if elected and he was elected under a fair democratic process. Somehow I don't think Bush needs to look this guy in the eye to determine that he has a bad soul, unlike Stalin. . . I mean Putin.
So let's all start eating frogs legs and turning against all things Spanish. (And let me know if you know a good way to distinguish between Spanish thingamabobs and Mexican thingamajigs.)
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An Editorial
By Pillsbury
File this one under "as if it could'nt get any worse." With our troops under constant attack in Iraq from a union of Islamic extremists of the bin Laden, Sunni and Shiia stripe and Saddam Hussein loyalists (only we could create such unity), with Afganistan returning to its previous roll as opium central, and the Bush administration beginning to resemble a bad Maude episode (hold on, was there ever a bad Maude episode?), now we find out that the people who hate us the most - Arabs - hate us even more.
This gives me pause to reflect: should we reciprocate and hate the French even more? Should this hatred continue down the line? Should we hate the French that much - I mean, after all, they've given us all those great movies, like. . . Le Femme Nikita and . . . you know, . . . that other one. And what about their culinary skills - who else would have thought to stir fry slimy garden pests. And it was their leadership in Indochina that got us to defend the burgeoning democratic state of Vietnam.
I say we stop hating the French and start hating the Spanish.
I'm not alone on this - the President is with me in hating the Spaniards. Granted, their food is good and your average Spaniard is probably just the same today as he was back when the Spanish PM was one of our principal allies in Iraq. But, Bush has taught us that it is not the character of the people of a country that make them natural allies, its the President's determination of whether the leader of that country has a good soul.
The current PM in Spain has always been against the war and said that he would pull the Spanish troops out if elected and he was elected under a fair democratic process. Somehow I don't think Bush needs to look this guy in the eye to determine that he has a bad soul, unlike Stalin. . . I mean Putin.
So let's all start eating frogs legs and turning against all things Spanish. (And let me know if you know a good way to distinguish between Spanish thingamabobs and Mexican thingamajigs.)
