Spoonfed Americans

I read an article on an MSNBC WorldBlog today, and a streaming mess of crap that followed it...

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/10/264350.aspx

Some of the comments were logical and intelligent - there were facts upon which they based their opinions and comments. But most were from my favorite group of people - spoonfed Americans, most of whom have no clue what's really going on in the world outside their white-picket-fenced backyard (and don't truly care either). They believe everything they see on television and a majority of them are 'Reality TV' junkies. Thinking outside the box is a foreign concept to them.

So here's my comment about pulling out of Iraq, the 'innocent' victims of the war, etc...

Sure, let's pull all of our troops and all of our contractors. We'll retreat to the borders of our bad-ass, world-dominating nation, complete with Starbucks and Cheesecake Factory. And then we'll all sit back in the evenings and watch human rights groups' video coverage of the latest and greatest dictator in Iraq, and his 2 inbred sons, one of which likes to feed his live prisoners to lions (just like the last dictator's son). And we'll sit on our porches with our families, drinking lemonade and waving to passing neighbors, and read about the mass graves discovered, all the bodies contained within them ironically bound, tortured, and shot in the head. And then we'll read more left-wing, bleeding heart crap about how we need to take our pampered, privileged, rich asses over there to help the poor, 'innocent' victims of oppression - help the people who are too oppressed to take up arms and protect themselves like Americans did back in the 1700s. And we'll laugh and say, "How about you go? And then send me a freakin' postcard!"

And maybe after seeing this stuff first-hand, digging a little deeper, those people will start eating with a fork and knife.