Breads and circuses.
The economy is in the shitter, the government is 390 quintillion dollars in debt and the president is a clueless fuck.
HEY! Did you hear Chastity Bono is going to be on Dancing With The Stars!!!! OMG!!!
It's GAME WEEK, bitches!!!1!
I was watching that NatGeo special on Saddam Hussein's reign of terror in Iraq and it struck me how easy we have it and how soft we are.
Casey Anthony may or may not have killed her kid. And she's the worst person EVAR!! (I'm guilty, too).
The US Army can't bomb a desert camp because a satellite photo shows what appears to be a tricycle outside one of them. We can't take a chance on killing a child.
Here was Saddam videotaping torture and showing it on the nightly news so people wouldn't mistake his intentions. Here he was dropping nerve gas on women and children, bodies piling up in the streets. Digging mile long trenches to pile hundreds of thousands of bodies in. His soldiers razing entire towns, knocking every building to the ground, separating parents from children, fucking the kids to death and just shooting the parents for sport.
That is the enemy. Can you imagine what they would do if they ever hit the ground here en masse? Can you fathom you children being ripped away from you and knowng that the girls would be raped and tortured and the boys hacked to death with machetes?
I'm on a tangent now, but Rome was overrrun by barbarians. They were destroyed because they lost the ability and inclination to fight because they had grown complacent. Life was too easy.
The Muslim extremists are the barbarians. They want to bring the dark ages to us. And we don't care. We'd rather not offend them. *sigh*
It frightens me. I worry for my kids.