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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
June 21, 2007
Incredibly Enough, There's Something Even Worse
On Tuesday Frontline ran a new documentary on Iraq called Endgame. In it they interviewed Frederick Kagan, the think tank guy who came up with the idea of the "surge." As explained below, Kagan earnestly tells us Iraq has been a catastrophe in part because "opposition to the war has not been constructive." Yes: as I've always suspected, this is our fault.
Yet as hilarious and horrifying as that is, another part of the Kagan interview is more hilarious and horrifying still. When watching this, see if you can help cringing in shame on Kagan's behalf, and cringing in terror for the rest of us—living as we do in a world run by eight year-old boys:
NARRATOR: Well known military scholars were brought to Camp David from Washington think tanks.KAGAN: It was a very cool experience. They flew me up on a Chinook, which is in itself a cool experience, to fly along the Potomac like that. Honestly I went there just eager to have the opportunity to lay a plan before the president to say let us, you know, seize hold of this opportunity.
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If you boil enough cats, they let you fly in a cool warplane!
Posted by: StO at June 21, 2007 11:19 AMOne of the MENTAL giants of our time.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at June 21, 2007 11:34 AMBetween the Kagans' war games and the neocons' Jack Bauer fixation, we are being well and truly fucked by the Little Rascals. (John Podhoretz is Spanky.)
Posted by: slim at June 21, 2007 01:27 PM> One of the MENTAL giants of our time.
A giant mentalist, indeed. Just look at those gigantic muscles round his neck required to support the sheer density inside his skull.
