Jon Stewart’s response to President Bush’s “non-political” 9/11 speech. Typically funny, yet cuttingly insightful.
One good point raised: if the fate of the civilized world depends on the Sunni/Shia battle being waged in Baghdad, why are we screwing around with our already failed “stay the course” strategy? Why not send our entire military? Perhaps incorporate a draft.
“You can’t tell Americans we are going to fight for our very way of life and then say there’s nothing we can do to help . . . except trust you. That scares people . . . fills them with terror–which, from what I understand, is a, from what I understand, is the actual word we’re fighting.
Level with us, we know there’s evildoers out there, doing evil. But if your idea is to keep invading all these different countries until the world is completely safe, fella, the world’s never been completely safe.
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If this is a battle for civilization, make your case, and gear it up, let’s World War II this thing, all right. And if it’s not, stop scaring the [bleep] out of everybody ever two years.
It’s a shame our politicians can’t speak with this clarity.