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October 02, 2007
The Real Stakes In This Terrible War
Dennis explains:
I recall a relative of mine arguing in favor of extensive war in the Middle East, saying that if we didn't bomb the Arabs into submission, they would come over here and "fuck us in the ass." That's a direct quote, by the way. I remember that line well because I had no real come back to it. I mean, what do you say to that: "To the contrary, they won't fuck us in the ass"?
Definitely read the rest.
EARLIER: "I will screw him in the ass!"
AND: They will base their ass-screwing juggernaut in a small creek in Crawford, Texas.
Posted at October 2, 2007 12:11 PM | TrackBackA new twist to "Up the creek without a paddle".
Posted by: Mike Meyer at October 2, 2007 12:48 PMAs usual, Dennis is on to something. But what?
The "fuck us in the ass" worldview (Weltanschauung to the inner Kraut in you)may well come from the male locker room, where most of our leaders experienced their formative learning. Except for FDR, HST and LBJ, jocks,almost all of them. The male locker room became the Eton (as in playing fields of) of our foreign policy. But, whether they want to fuck others in the ass or live in fear of being fucked in the ass, that I don't know. Perhaps a psychohistorian of the Presidency, teaming up with an SI football reporter (all that patting on the ass--foreplay?)will write a bombshell of a book.
It is, it also appears, an Anglo-Saxon sort of thing, with humor concentrated on fuck(ing). German humor goes more for the Scheisse (shit) inclination of male thinking and acting.
How the Jews fit into all of this, given their own contribution to humor, or blacks, I don't even want to touch.
If it were true then why wasn't Jeff Gannon deployed for this mission?
Posted by: Bob In Pacifica at October 2, 2007 01:50 PMWell, you could point out that Muslims in general have much stricter sexual habits than Christians and Jews, and that therefore, f--king in aforesaid asses would not likely take place. But then your opponent would just find another argument, so why bother?
Posted by: catherine at October 2, 2007 03:00 PMi think the right response is, "you wish"
Posted by: hapa at October 2, 2007 03:18 PMWell, you could point out that Muslims in general have much stricter sexual habits than Christians and Jews, and that therefore, f--king in aforesaid asses would not likely take place. But then your opponent would just find another argument, so why bother?
As*fu*king aside, it's their handiness with power drills concerns me more, although I'm not sure that didn't come from our own manuals.
If there's no market in the middle east for Black & Decker, you create the market.
Posted by: Ted at October 2, 2007 03:36 PM...and call it Blackwater & Decker.
Posted by: donescobar at October 2, 2007 04:05 PM...and call it Blackwater & Decker.
Touche! Or however they say in German.
I can't decide if the manual is a military/intelligence manual or an economic one.
I'm going with economic.
Posted by: Ted at October 2, 2007 04:26 PMConservatives really do have an anal fixation. In more ways than one.
Posted by: Batocchio at October 2, 2007 04:48 PMSo we have to fight them there so they don't come and tap their feet in our public bathroom stalls here?
At least this explains why the undercover cops in the Minneapolis airport are so concerned with this particular security threat. It really is a key battleground in the War on Terror.
Posted by: Whistler Blue at October 2, 2007 05:40 PMPerhaps a lot of hardhats out there are sitting in front of the TV (watching Fox news, of course) with their pants down around their ankles and muttering angrily, "Dammit, where's the anal action? They promised anal. They promised!"
Posted by: Ming The Merciful at October 2, 2007 06:56 PMI am struck by irony, again and again, that the persons most preoccupied with American "greatness" tend to favor policies that are that much more likely to make ours a second-rate country.
Posted by: jonathan versen at October 3, 2007 08:47 AMI am struck by irony, again and again, that the persons most preoccupied with American "greatness" tend to favor policies that are that much more likely to make ours a second-rate country.
Concern for greatness in terms of countries?
Not sure there's a lot of room for human rights, dignity or treating the needs of people generally equally, as long as arbitrary lines define the greatness of one people over another.
Posted by: Ted at October 3, 2007 10:49 AMWHERE HAS all the love gone, it's all just sex and sex and sex anymore.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at October 4, 2007 06:09 PMYou will be pleased to note that the Repubs have adopted this as their 2008 conference theme. "2008? Screw you!" is the subtext, I believe. Skeptical? See the logo.
Posted by: me at October 5, 2007 10:23 AM