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August 29, 2006
Round the World
--One of the more asinine polls you'll see all week.
--Oh noes! Y'all are all going to die!!!! Or at least get somewhat damp. Hurricane hysteria, all the cool kids are doing it.
--It's out with the old and in with the new on tv's latest reality drama, 'Arrest the Freak'.
--Finally, he's right you know. Or maybe you don't. Maybe it's just because it's one of my favorite historical periods, but to me the parallels between now & the WWII era are particularly striking.
In fact, I was just thinking that yesterday while watching a semi-documentary on FDR & Lend-Lease. One scene stood out in particular....a sound bite by Andy Rooney, who was a WWII correspondent. He said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here) that after Pearl Harbor, he supported going to war against Japan. But that he still believed getting into the war in Europe was a mistake. And then, he said, we got into Germany and saw what the Germans had been doing. And he was devastated. Absolutely devastated.
So now that we've gotten into Iraq and have seen what Saddam's been doing to the Kurds and to anyone who opposed him, are you equally devastated Mr. Rooney? Was Pearl Harbor so different from 9/11?
Or are you doomed to repeat your past mistakes?
Posted by Rita at August 29, 2006 04:07 PM
Comments
Wow! Flattened clown. Shame the kids had to see it. Hell, even I wouldn't wish that on most clowns. A kick in the ass would do in most cases.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at August 29, 2006 07:34 PM