We’ve failed you, America
Published by punkass marc July 28th, 2006 in Blogitics, Imperialism for Dummies, Mutterings Of The DisturbedToday, Ezra Klein brings us a brilliant quote from Lee Siegel:
No wonder, several years after the blogosphere allegedly became a people powerhouse, the country is mired even deeper in Iraq and successfully distracted by one false public alarm after another.
Unfortunately, Ezra refuses to take the blog-o-blame for all of this country’s ills, and Iraq in particular. If we look in the mirror, though, we have only ourselves to blame.
Think of how lazy we are when it comes to job openings in this administration. How many bloggers applied to the Secretary of State opening after Powell left, hmm? How many of us would take the time to ready our resume should The Donald keel over due to stress? If we had any determination at all, we’d have all joined the US miitary back when the war started. I’m sure we’d be 3 and 4 star generals by now, and able to dramatically influence administration policy.
Okay, so we failed to do all of that. Fine. Then we absolutely should have used our people power to form a mercenary army to keep the peace on the streets of Baghdad.
I hope you’re not laughing, because this is serious business. Everyone would get assigned a rank based on hits per day for bloggers and comments per day for commenters, and we’d station ourselves all over the city to keep watch. Every time one of us saw an insurgent commit a violent act, we’d shame him relentlessly on our blogs. Unlike traditional arms, our smart bombs never miss. Every one of my ‘yo momma’ jokes is right on target, and there are only so many internet shamings a would-be terrorist can take before rolling over to our people-powered superiority.
We missed the boat, people. Iraq is our fault. Well, actually, I’ve got all these great ideas, but what have you done, hmm? I wag my finger in your general direction.
Well I suppose I’m personally responsible for the failure to meet recruitment goals.
No toaster for you!
I know my attitude problem hasn’t helped with morale. And all those marches - I know our marches in Minneapolis against the War before it started distracted people from the threat of Saddam and then distracted the Iraqis from the threat of the insurgency. Little did we know!
I think Colonel Marcotte needs to have a talk with you.
Oh, and my CV for MiniDef is already polished and ready - all I need now is a green card!