6.22.2010

What a dud

And here I go again with the politics. Say it with me: "Boooooooooo."
But!
From the Times regarding the Times Square Bomber, who just pleaded guilty (my emphases are added):

But he said “one has to understand where I’m coming from.” He said that he considered himself “a Muslim soldier,” and that United States and NATO forces had attacked Muslim lands.
Judge Cedarbaum interjected: “But not the people who were walking in Times Square that night. Did you look around to see who they were?”
Mr. Shahzad replied, “Well, the people select the government; we consider them all the same.”
“Including the children?” the judge asked.
“Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Mr. Shahzad replied, “they don’t see children; they don’t see anybody. They kill women, children. They kill everybody. It’s a war. And in war, they kill people. They’re killing all Muslims.”
Clearly Mr Shahzad has not been in the country long enough. Despite being from Connecticut, he apparently doesn't realize that about 80% of the people walking through Times Square at any given moment are N-O-T residents of NYC (Times Square is for tourists, bro! We avoid it like the plague!), and therefore have a greater chance of being far less liberal than most NYC residents, and therefore probably didn't select the current government. And if they were part of the narrow majority that selected the previous government, it's likely that they don't support the war anymore - no one does - and Mr Shahzad should pull his head out of his ass and realize that NO ONE WANTS THIS WAR ANYMORE.

Although I am a bit surprised to hear that we are still bombing. Mr POTUS (that's Peacenik Of The United States) said we were pulling out. That doesn't sound like pulling out to me.

2 comments:

said...

My favorite part of this post is your disdain for Times Square tourists when you've been there all of five weeks yourself! =)

Picking up the slack from previous posts, there are several million non-gay men in you neighborhood now; don't date the ones at work, chica! And stop reading Glamour; it makes you look home-schooled.

XOXO

Cookie said...

Listen, just because I'm new here doesn't mean I'm still a tourist :-p