making enemies, really bad analogies, and making the big time...

even our puppets are turning on us now...fantastic...here goes a big thank you to the folks in washington that have done so much to end terrorism. karzai...our boy...went public with what is amazingly difficult for people in this country to understand (although if you spend 100 years dehumanizing a people, killing them becomes a hell of a lot easier). you know it's bad when the guy you put in power after taking over the country tells you your policies are completely moronic. although he kept his language toned down, he basically told the united states that slaughtering afghanis was not exactly a productive way to fight terrorism. anyone want to bet that instead of taking note that an effective way of fighting terror involves examining why people are more than willing to sacrifice their lives is abandoned for the easier route of just killing the ones willing to die and easily replaced? how many times have our leaders told us "they have no respect for human life...anyone else's or their own" and yet expect to effectively deter them by killing people. but no...that is perfectly logical...really, it is. i mean, killing people as a deterrent has worked so well in this country...look how low our violent crime has dropped since capital punishment was reinstituted.

in a recent speech bush compared iraq to hungary in the 1950's. when i read this, i honestly thought someone on his staff was making a joke at his expense. his thoughts in reading the speech went something like this "hungary circa 1956...overrun by a superpower that forced a government on the people that they did not want until they got so sick of it they rose up against the forces of the superpower...iraq circa 2006...overrun by a superpower and fighting for independ...ooo...the small country fighting against the evil empire analogy was a really bad choice georgey...oh well, i'm in too deep now...best run with it. afterall, a good leader will stick to his guns even when it is absolutely clear they are pointing right back at his face...afterall, the american people only care about resolve in the face of adversity. so i'll just have to git-r-dun."

as a chicagoan let me just say...woot. some wannabe terrorists were going to try and blow up the sears tower. chicago is finally important...even if they didn't realize it is mostly empty.

so lead us there...