Just a quick thought...

So, in the time that has passed since 9/11, we haven’t found Bin Laden, we haven’t found Al-Zawahiryi, we haven’t nabbed Saddam or either of his sons, we;ve detained lots of supposedly upper-echelon people who have fed us info that has led to wild-goose chases and potentially embarrassing international incidents. We’ve found nothing about the WMD’s besides what turned out to be a Baghdad trailer park (instead of white trash is it shi’ite trash? Are they as worried about sandstorms as we are about hurricanes?) and now, some parts allegedly from a centrifuge (never mind that they look like my doorknobs) that were buried in someone’s backyard, and we’ve vastly underfunded our ports, cut pensions and medical benefits for veterans - that’ll be sure to attract new volunteers for military service! - and been subjected to Hollywood-ized so-called “press conferences” that were mere window dressing for GW’s balls, and declared the war in Iraq to be over without letting the other side know. Does that cover it all? Feel safer, do you? Confident the government is doing all it can to keep you safe and informed? Well…there was that duct tape thing, that’s gotta count for something.

What, really, has been accomplished?

Oh, wait…we made some good French jokes. Cool.

p.s. Whatever happened with Afghanistan? I kinda thought we got rid of the Taliban, now they’re holding what amounts to press conferences without any fear of repercussion? Forget hearts and minds, we can’t even be bothered to focus long enough to finish one job…