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Friday, November 06, 2009

Gentlemen! You can't fight here, this is the war room!


I'm not sure why it should be shocking that violence can erupt in the middle of an Army base. I guess it's analagous to a gun backfiring and injuring the hand that holds it. Or it's like a mistake in syntax, since Americans are supposed to be exclusively the subjects and not the objects of violence.

9/11 briefly reminded the US political culture that its causal connection to the rest of the world is bidirectional, but that insight lasted about two weeks.

1 comment:

TGGP said...

I could quote my comments form an IOZ thread, but instead I'll just link to them.
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/11/traumedy.html?showComment=1257521413056#c938921838602328589
http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/11/hes-just-not-that-into-you.html?showComment=1257224794914#c8343618250570652494
I think we'd be in much agreement when it comes to our foreign policy recommendations, but I'm trying not to treat arguments like soldiers.