All the news may be
hints of worse things to come
By Andrew Warner
Going down Friday's front page of Hines
Sight is like reading a greatest hits list of bad news.
This is
your official warning: Don't get lulled into passivity by visions of
sugarplums and the stress of trudging through suburban super-malls to
find the latest Tickle-Me Elmo.
I have a feeling the powers that be
are counting on you not paying attention this time of year – the
stakes are a wee bit high for you to let them be right.
First came the President's buildup
of Naval forces in the Persian Gulf – part of of the conspicuous
Bush/Ahmadinejad pissing contest. Who's more powerful? Who's more
scary? Whose God is better? Who has a nicer haircut? Honestly, why is
our President playing a game of chicken with a religious fanatic who
has nothing to lose?
If Ahmadinejad gets his country destroyed in the
name of Islam, fighting evil America and what not, he'll probably get
1000 extra virgins in heaven. If we decide to clash swords, all we get
is an even more bloated deficit, countless more lost lives, and even
worse standing in the international community.
Not worth it.
And we're talking about the draft again, really? I thought we had
already written off Representative Rangel, who just a few weeks ago
admitted he was going to try to reinstate the draft, as a crazy person
and put this idea back to sleep in the graveyard of bad ideas.
But for some reason Selective
Service is "testing its machinery."
Don't worry though. The White House says it doesn't have plans to
bring back the draft. That allays all my fears. It's not like they've
fibbed to us in the past – we'll give them a pass for the WMDs, the
cooked intelligence, and, of course, that whole "we're winning the war
in Iraq" thing.
So enjoy the holidays everyone!
Give your children nice presents, hugs
and kisses, and all those warm things we do on the holidays. It's not
long before you are kissing them goodbye when they're drafted to fight
our war against Iran.
December 23, 2006
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