H W didn’t stop before reaching Baghdad because of the UN. He
stopped because his advisors told him he would have a mess on his hands if he
deposed Saddam. Those advisors were still around when W went in and his dad
urged him to listen to them, but W wouldn’t because his own advisors told him
that the troops would be walking down rose petal strewn paths, and it would be
no trouble at all to transform Iraq into a stable democracy that would be the
envy of the rest of the mideast causing everybody there to also convert to
democracy, and there would be no more trouble from the middle east. Oh, and
that Iraq would be so grateful that they would repay us our costs for invading
them out of their oil money, so that in the end it wouldn’t even cost us
anything.
I think you know that any plan involving the good of the hearts of
the oil companies, or for the good of the hearts of anybody, is not a very good
plan. And the oil producers I think are mostly multinational corporations
and why should they give a fig about the US, and if the word got around
that they were doing things out of the good of their hearts nobody would want to
invest in them.
I’m sure you know that when Texas joined the union there was a
provision that anytime they wanted to they could divide up into five separate
states, and as a matter of fact they still could do it tomorrow if they so
chose. They would have five times as many senators, why wouldn’t they want to
do that?
Well in the first place they love Texas, every man jack of them,
when the band is playing Beautiful Texas their hats are over their hearts and
their eyes are misty with manly tears. On a more practical side, the senator
from east Texas wouldn’t give a fig for the interests of west Texas and vice
versa, and in the end instead of one mighty Texas would be just five
squabbling states with about the population of Colorado. And
certainly if any of the original thirteen states had decided to go their own
way, they never would have made it.
So maybe the founding fathers just never considered the possibility
that a state would be foolish enough to leave the union. Of course it’s hard to
know what they were thinking. Remember that thirsty late afternoon when they
drafted the second amendment providing for the militia to be armed, and one of
them objected that the way it was worded some idiot could think that they wanted
everybody in the country to be packing heat, but then his bewigged buddy said
nobody in the enlightened future could possibly interpret it that way, and it
was hard to rewrite things when the delete button hadn’t yet been invented, and
you were working with quills and ink for Chrissake, and yonder ale house would
be starting its happie houre in just five minutes, so they let it
go.
And because yon taverne offered two tankards of ale for the price
of one we will never, never ever ever, pry that deer rifle out of Beagles’
hands. Though if we were real sneaky we might find a way to split the stock and
force him to forgo a deer season.
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