Letters to the Editor
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Bombing: The New National Past time?
Bombing sovereign countries has become our new national pasttime! No wonder here, in addition to getting the Bad Guys, it does so many wonderful things for us! Here are a couple examples of what I mean:
It can help us learn the geography we avoided learning during years of school, as we get out the old National Geographic maps from the attic and look up the location of our latest bombing campaign. We're such well-informed citizens!
It can teach us about new cultures as we tune into the news and learn the funny names of all sorts of brown people, anglicized pronunciations of place names, and their "different" (not inferior *wink wink*) cultures.
It can make us feel proud to be Americans, as we put aside our silly differences like partisan politics, road rage, class strife and racial tension, and join together to see the big shiny explosions on CNN. Those people in far off lands are lucky to be the recipients of so much American military largesse. We're helping to free them from tyranny! They too can someday hope to enjoy the Freedom all us Americans enjoy!
It even stimulates our economy! The Government pays money to corporations that build the bombs. That means more jobs for people like you and I. We're lucky to have em!
Yes sir, BOMBING sovereign nations makes me proud to be an American and PAY MY HARD EARNED TAXES. Good thing that money isn't getting wasted on foolish nonsense like mass transit funding, education, improved health care, or social security.
Who needs those things to compete in the new Global Economy when we have such awesome military technology to get the bad guys!?!