Here's a quickie:
We've now spent
$1,600,000,000,000 dollars on the War in Iraq. Yes, that's "16" with 11 zeros after it.
You know what this is starting to remind me of? Gamblers who keep borrowing money from the house thinking their lucky breaks are overdue. It's called
the gambler's fallacy, and it's driving us into oblivion. Soon, the United States will be putting the pink slip for its car on the table— and we'll be practically guaranteed to lose it.
We're a country of lazy, unintelligent, mindless, paranoid, hedonistic dumbasses who are easily frightened into tossing money in any direction to prevent some unknown person from doing some unknown thing to us. We build gates and walls to fence ourselves in— even though they keep out nothing.
So here's my question: just when, exactly are we going to cut our losses and walk away from the table? The corporate puppets will say that we want to, "cut and run," and you know what I say to that?
YES! Cut and fucking run the hell out of there, before our legs get blown off and we can't even do that. I'd much rather cut and run instead of hemorrhage everything we've worked for as a country on some fucking sand people over some bullshit archaic energy source. Let them deal with their own shit.
We've got our own problems to deal with here. We can start with the infant mortality rate and try to re-instate the constitution as we work our way up. Maybe once our ravaged rectums heal, we'll be able to formulate another strategy for invading the middle east for economic gain. Until then, let's recoup our losses and focus on brainstorming ways to prevent a great depression.
Cheers.