From Iraq to Old Betsy

You may be right about Iraq. I don't remember it all that well, so I'll have to take your word for it. But what about those "no-fly zones"? I seem to remember that Saddam agreed to keep his war planes out of certain areas as a condition for him being allowed to remain in power. We had our own planes constantly flying around the no-fly zones to make sure that Saddam was keeping his word so, although the war was officially over, we still had people there. Every once in a while one of Saddam's radar installations would target one of our planes and our guys would fire a missile at them. Meanwhile, Saddam was gassing the Kurds from the air, but I don't know whether or not that was a violation of the no-fly agreement. The Kurds are kind of nomadic, so maybe they wandered in and out of the no-fly zones on occasion. Peace is Hell!

That thing I said about people doing things out of the goodness of their hearts was not a plan, it was a fantasy. Of course nobody's going to do things out of the goodness of their hearts. If they did, we wouldn't even need a government. Then what would we do with all those useless politicians who would be out of a job?

I have said before that, rather than seceding from the union, we should just kick out the undesirable parts, like the East Coast and the West Coast. The East coast is going to be under water in a few years anyway, and California is going to break off and sink into the sea. I guess we could keep Washington and Oregon, I've never heard anything bad about them except that it rains a lot there. On the state level, Michigan would be a lot better off without Detroit, and Illinois would be well rid of Chicago, or Chicago would be well rid of Illinois, depending on your point of view.

I have also said before that I didn't think the Second Amendment was about anything but state militias. The idea of depriving private citizens of their firearms was, and is, so patently absurd that the Founding Fathers didn't see any reason to bring it up. It would be like if, today, somebody came up with the idea to ban private ownership of automobiles. Next thing you know they would be going after junk food, cigarettes, and alcoholic beverages. Who would want to live in a world like that?