Friday, May 11, 2007

Dear George,   If pride goeth before the fall, then martial hubris goeth before the pratfall.  This is why the 2008 presidential campaign is fast becoming a slapstick routine as candidates the length of the political spectrum fall all over themselves promising to increase the size of our armed forces.  This, of course, is a manifestation of the mine-is-bigger-than-yours doctrine that you have successfully introduced to international diplomacy.   Any candidate, regardless of sex, must be prepared to prance across the stage sporting the wooden phallus first seen in the Satyr plays of ancient Greece, those moving dithyrambs to the god, Dionysus.   The premise is that we need more troops to put out the fires started by the presence of our troops who are spread across the face of the earth.  Proponents of an engorged military continue to entertain the delusion that as the world’s sole surviving superpower only the United States can bring stability to a world largely destabilized by our foreign policy.    Flashing a military hard-on to the World has become such an ingrained knee-jerk response that even the most progressive of our candidates is quick to whip it out, lest he appear flaccid to his opponents.   So we continue to rattle our rusted sabers while ragheads in discount sneakers bring us to a grinding halt in Iraq.  Chaplain couldn’t have executed a better pratfall.  Those of us who love lunatics salute you.   Your admirer, Belacqua Jones         6:34:13 AM    comment []

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