Foreign Policy by Cornelius Fudge
El Llama Butcher Steve has a wonderful little commentary regarding this exceptionally stupid article.
First, I just have to say, I love the Llama Butchers. Where else can one go for their daily dose of "How Harry Potter relates to Real Life"? Love it, man.
Cornelius Fudge, for those of you six out there who still haven't read Harry Potter 1-5, is the weasely Minister of Magic. He so desperately wishes for the Dark Lord not to have returned to power that he goes on a year-long anti-Harry Potter campaign. He apparently has some editorial power at the magical newspaper "The Daily Prophet" and has them making Harry the butt of jokes and running articles suggesting Harry is deranged and seeking attention. Fudge does all of this as some sort of desperate wishful thinking. He doesn't want the horror to begin anew...so it can't possibly be true.
Steve is right in the analogy. We want terrorism to be a footnote in the History of the 1980's. We don't want to fight a war on terror. If we are against the war...that will keep us safe. The French now know this isn't true. The Russians now know this isn't true. The Democrats...they are a different story.
But more importantly, nobody ever got anywhere by wishing. What's that old saying? Wish with one hand and shit in the other...and see which hand fills up faster? Crude, but apt.
Moreover, it is not necessarily wise to do something because it is popular. I could go on all day about this, but suffice it to say that if this were true, either Michael Jackson or Britney Spears would be emperor of the world. Not all answers are found at the bottom of a tube of lip gloss. The United States should act as the American Citizens see fit and in its best interests, not what the rest of the world thinks we ought to do.
Furthermore, the poll is flat out stupid. Non-citizens can't vote in an American election, making their opinions...incredibly moot. (Or "moo" as Joey would say...like a cow's opinion...Moo.) Who gives a damn what they think? Certainly not me!
It must have been an incredibly slow news day. Either that or, this is the only good press the Kerry Kamp can come up with.
Ya think?
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