News from Iraq regarding the surge’s success. Apparently as more troops pour into the neighborhoods, the insurgents have less time to blow up civilians.
I was kidding a liberal friend of mine yesterday, sort of the way Uncle Billy in “It’s a Wonderful Life”, kids Mr. Potter just before he hands him 8,000$ in a rolled up newspaper.
I was having a great time of it, when he interrupted me with a lavish fake British Accent: “Rightly so, jolly old chap……” He continued responding to me with the accent, and volunteered no explanation. Curious, I asked…………
“Well, dear chap,” he brogued. ” If your theory was indubitably consistent through the annuals of historical evidence, then we would speak, all of us, with a British accent now.”
I got caught off guard, and was lost and not sure where he was going……………
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“How much do you know about your own history”, I got asked.
Not knowing where he was going, but guessing it had something to do with World War Two, I answered “quite a lot.”
“Well, old chap,” he continued, ” if you remember that during the Revolution of the America’s, the British redcoats subdued the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston, Savannah, and were never forcefully challenged or removed from these areas. Were your theory to hold, that domination of urban territory wins the war,………………..we would all be speaking in British accents now, would we not?”
My liberal friend had a point.
kavips 
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March 16, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Duffy
So, your liberal friend is equating insurgents/terrorists in Iraq with the Founding Fathers. Very nice. I hardly remember anything about Washington or his aides sawing off the heads of British journalists or captured soldiers.
The analogy really falls down because the American Revolutionaries weren’t strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up civilians on their way to Church or the market.
The bad guys in Iraq aren’t nationalists, they don’t have popular support and they aren’t fighting against tyranny and oppression, they’re fighting to be the ones doing the oppressing and tyrannizing.
March 17, 2007 at 12:38 am
kavips
Interesting, though weak, attempt at zeugma.
I believe my friend was just implying it was too early to assume victory.
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Interestingly, upon reflection, your last paragraph is only true IF one views the conflict from the right wing American perspective.
From most other perspectives, we appear to be the”bad guys”………………………and on the world stage, Iraqi’s citizens have seized the high ground, similar to the way those unkempt dirty “injin” fighters. eventually seized the high ground against cultivated, civilized, British regulars…………………………….
Failure to understand this, is why we are in trouble in Iraq.