Letters to the Editor
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Talk is for pussies
Let's not talk to our enemies, because the other alternatives work SO much better:
-Economic sanctions. They got rid of Saddam Hu...well, OK, no they didn't.
-Bombing the shit out of somebody. That's made things all better in Iraq...wait, they weren't our enemy until we went and trashed their country and left the borders wide open for al Qaeda? Damn.
Talking might work pretty well. Of course, it doesn't make us feel all manly as a nation, and we really like feeling manly.
By the way, the root of "hysterical" is "hyster", Latin for womb or uterus. In other words, of and about women. Ben Smith was basically calling Obama a girl. Imagine what they'd say if Hillary had the nomination. "Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, obviously affected by PMS, threw a full-on hissy fit today when..."