Land of the Weird
The longer I spend living outside America, and it’s now been more than 14 years, the harder it gets to defend my country when it is criticised, or perhaps worse, laughed at by the rest of the world. And the world is howling with laughter again.
>And who could blame them? How could anyone fail to laugh at a country where in the same week that the Bush administration was forced to admit that Saddam Hussein had posed no threat to America, and did not possess any so-called weapons of mass destruction (thus exposing as entirely fraudulant its motives for going to war in Iraq), is it possible that the event which has outraged the nation be Janet Jackson’s breast being exposed on national TV?
How could the latter be considered an obscenity but not the former? How could a brief glimpse of a woman’s breast be taken as evidence of the nation’s moral decay, but not that same nation’s slaughter of innocent men, women and children for no other reason than George W Bush wanting to go one better than his father? If you have answers to these questions, please share them.
February 8th, 2004 01:02
Yikes, Roger!
No doubt the uproar over a has-been’s boob has gone way past reason, to the point where all us Americans are part of a class action lawsuit against Ms. Jackson, CBS, Captain Kangaroo, and God knows who all. I’m trying to find out how to be removed from the class, just in case it’s not thrown out of court with great guffaws of laughter by the judge. It was filed in Tennessee, though.
I digress. I’m afraid Dubya hasn’t really admitted they were wrong, at least not very clearly to me. He has said, more or less, that he’s given it some thought ( insert smart remark here) and no matter what, he did the right thing by blowing the crap out of Iraq and sometime later catching Saddam. The important thing is…is…is…Yeah! We got rid of the evil Saddam Hussein. Yeah, that’s the ticket!(apologies to John Lovitz).