Another Corner Turned.
With the death of Al Zarkawi our administration will announce that once again we have turned a corner in the war on terror. Another day, another turn, a turn for the better or just a bend in the road, one good turn deserves another, to everything turn turn turn. As you can see, our language is full of metaphorical turns.
In the case of the war on terror, and its corollary, the battle for Iraq, the word turn should be used more in the context of the milk has turned, or they have turned on us or even turnabout is fair play, especially in this witless war. These twists and turns of fate are leading us deeper into the quagmire that we all, every American that survived the Vietnam era, had predicted. And yet we should not despair, because according to some pundits, we have now made just enough turns to be right back where we started. You see if you stay the course, and only turn right, as this administration has done, you end up repeating yourself and going over your own tracks.
Now there is one great reason for going over your own tracks, and that’s to cover them up while laying new ones. If ever there was a group of people that needed to cover their tracks it’s the Bush administration. Since we are right back where we started from, we can expect a vociferous and enthusiastic search for weapons of mass destruction. So we can expect announcements that Iraq is the breeding ground for terrorist activities. This time, because the invasion was so well planned, and because of our incredible stupidity in allowing George to lead, they will be right.
After all these turns, they forgot to look back, and by gummy, the terrorist that were not there during the first few turns, have now arrived en masse. Vindication has come at last for all those sleepless nights waiting for the good news.
There is only one miscalculation in this whole war on terror corner turning equation, what George and his crew, in their simplistic way, thought was a flat earth, has now shifted in time and space and become an infinite loop. No matter how many twists and turns you take on the Iraq war Mobius strip, you still never arrive anywhere and are pointed towards an eternity of pain and suffering for all concerned.
With the death of Al Zarkawi our administration will announce that once again we have turned a corner in the war on terror. Another day, another turn, a turn for the better or just a bend in the road, one good turn deserves another, to everything turn turn turn. As you can see, our language is full of metaphorical turns.
In the case of the war on terror, and its corollary, the battle for Iraq, the word turn should be used more in the context of the milk has turned, or they have turned on us or even turnabout is fair play, especially in this witless war. These twists and turns of fate are leading us deeper into the quagmire that we all, every American that survived the Vietnam era, had predicted. And yet we should not despair, because according to some pundits, we have now made just enough turns to be right back where we started. You see if you stay the course, and only turn right, as this administration has done, you end up repeating yourself and going over your own tracks.
Now there is one great reason for going over your own tracks, and that’s to cover them up while laying new ones. If ever there was a group of people that needed to cover their tracks it’s the Bush administration. Since we are right back where we started from, we can expect a vociferous and enthusiastic search for weapons of mass destruction. So we can expect announcements that Iraq is the breeding ground for terrorist activities. This time, because the invasion was so well planned, and because of our incredible stupidity in allowing George to lead, they will be right.
After all these turns, they forgot to look back, and by gummy, the terrorist that were not there during the first few turns, have now arrived en masse. Vindication has come at last for all those sleepless nights waiting for the good news.
There is only one miscalculation in this whole war on terror corner turning equation, what George and his crew, in their simplistic way, thought was a flat earth, has now shifted in time and space and become an infinite loop. No matter how many twists and turns you take on the Iraq war Mobius strip, you still never arrive anywhere and are pointed towards an eternity of pain and suffering for all concerned.
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