Attention, Protest Warrior Talent Scouts
By Mitch Berg
MLP from Casual Sundays with Mr. Curry:
My neighborhood is full of Vikings fans and Democrats, so I thought I could make a few bucks by whipping up some big purple lawn signs:SUPPORT THE VIKINGS!
END THE GAME!I’ll be selling them for $9.99 each.
I’ll take two.
October 2nd, 2007 at 7:40 am
Make it “End the SEASON” and I’ll take half-a-dozen.
Joe Doakes, Como Park
October 2nd, 2007 at 9:12 am
😀
A must-have for the 10/27 protest!
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
I have one.
This war is unworthy of our troops, our money, or our presence.
Dispute that please. When did it become our role to uncork the Genie, to sit in the middle of a civil war, and potentially, an inter-religious war?
When did that become a conservative mantra?
October 2nd, 2007 at 1:30 pm
When it became clear that the pathologies present in the Middle East could reach out and touch us at home.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
This war is unworthy of our troops, our money, or our presence.
Dispute that please.
We removed a terrorist safe haven. (It’s crawling with terrorists, but they’re hardly safe enough to use the place as a base to stage attacks elsewhere).
And what the hey – yes, it’s about oil. Partly, anyway. Hussein wanted, beyond any rational doubt, to control the Gulf’s oil supply; it was the motivation behind the 1991 war, as well as a significant part of the motivation behind his attack on Iran (that, and to have a meatgrinder to kill off opponents and keep the Shi’ites occupied; war hysteria and dictators and all). Having the entire gulf in the hands of anti-western dictators (or the Sauds, who were becoming more and more vulnerable to their influence) was a recipe for disaster, not so much for the US, but for all of Western Europe, the Pacific Rim and the Third World, all of which depend on Gulf oil much more than we do. A dictator-driven oil shutoff would devastate the entire world economy and spark immense violence, famine and, yes, terrorism in the Third World. Forestalling that is certainly in everyone’s interest.
And let us not forget the fact that that conservative tool, the New Yorker, noted that there were four reasons for the war, not just one; WMDs (which every reasonable person believed existed at the time), humanitarian offenses, defiance of UN resolutions, and of course repeated acts of war against US and coalition forces over the no fly zone.
When did it become our role to uncork the Genie, to sit in the middle of a civil war, and potentially, an inter-religious war?
When it became part of the western world’s best interest to not allow that civil war (which would happen eventually anyway) to disrupt the entire world economy, to say nothing of that whole “safe haven” thing.
When did that become a conservative mantra?
Until you can show me a conservative sitting cross-legged and chanting it, I’d say “it’s not, never has been, never will be”.
That was simple!