Many years ago, in their fake “Letters to the Editor” column, National Lampoon ran an irate letter claiming that modern medicine was a fraud designed to keep doctors’ fees high, that the human body was not a complex system of delicate organs, but “solid clean through like a baked potato,” and that the writer’s son needed surgery, which he would do himself “and save a bundle.”
My friends and I thought it was hilarious. Nobody could possibly be that stupid. But I’m starting to think that our current Iraq war was planned by the baked potato man.
Via Crooks and Liars, Larry Johnson reviews our options in Iraq:
We have four basic choices confronting us in Iraq:
- Fight the Sunni insurgents (there are at least 15 separate groups) and risk alienating the Saudis, the Jordanians, and the Turks.
- Fight the Shia insurgents/militia, which means we will engage 60% of Iraq’s population (and strengthen the hand of Shia-led Iran).
- Fight both the Sunni and Shia and put ourselves in the middle of the civil war.
- Retire from Iraq and let the Sunni and Shia sort things out among their various sectarian factions.
There really are no other logical options. It looks like Bush chose Option 3.
Midway through an operation by the baked potato man, even the greatest surgeon on earth couldn’t find a “way forward” with a positive outcome.
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