Fly your flag and throw your shoe!

It’s time to take a moment and fly your flag. No! Not your freak flag! Your American Flag. Wipe a tear from your eye, stand tall and proud. Everyone should live in a country so great.

This is what Americans have long believed. It was okay to not be democratic. It was okay if your women had no rights. You were allowed to be not-as-good-as-us. We were simply holier than thou and proud of it.

It was also okay to be small, backward, have a monarchy or women who didn’t shave - anything! But now, it’s only okay to be those things if you aren’t after us. The Jihad came at us with a big bad strike and we went apeshit.

I know others out there have recognized the sublime irony in our strike - a fervent, almost religious, lash out at those who didn’t harm us because they were in some small way associated with those who did. Yes, we went Jihad right back on them. Of course, this is to prove what a bad idea Jihad is. Gotta love it.

Now, I’m not saying that anyone is right or wrong here, nor that anyone has deserved what they got. No, I get the distinct impression that those who deserve some ‘getting’ are the only ones who aren’t getting it. But Americans, as a people, were wrong. We have the right to vote, we have some control over our government, but we often chose not to vote. For some reason ‘The Hills’ is more important than the presidential debate. What’s really sad is that some poor idiot - who really needs a Living Skills class rather than his/her own TV show - will read this and think ‘Hey, that’s cool! We got a shout out!”

*sigh*

In the re-wording and backtracking the government has done, the war on Iraq has changed from being a ‘war on terror’ to an almost attempt at ‘Americanizing’ the country. I mean, we can’t prove they did anything wrong except be not-as-good-as-us. Only now, we’d already opened the can of whoop-ass and we desperately needed someone to shake it at.

So, Welcome, Iraq, to the twenty-first century. The time where we take over your country and turn you into a democracy so you can be as good as us. We won’t take the time now to ask what becomes of us when you get better at it than we are. (Japanese electronics anyone?)

George Bush should be proud. Regardless of what he originally intended, he has succeeded at Americanization even if the Iraqis don’t like it. His visit a few days ago yielded a shoe being tossed at his head. The Iraqi Prime Minister sat quietly and still-faced as the shoe came flying through the air right at W’s head. W, by the way, had to duck to not get beaned.

That kind of aim takes practice. I’m glad to see he gave the Iraqi people the opportunity for such pastimes. It’s all over folks. They don’t need us any more. We can get our troops out of Iraq!

Throwing your shoe at the head of a foreign leader? Why, that’s as American as baseball and apple pie!
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