NP - Peace? No chance

[Terrance]

> (...)
> There is an old Bedouin legend that goes like this: an elderly leader
> thought that by eating turkey he could restore his virility. So he bought a
> turkey, kept it by his tent and stuffed it with food every day. One day
> someone stole his turkey. The Bedouin elder called his sons together and
> told them: "Boys, we are in great danger. Someone has stolen my turkey."
> 
> "Father," the sons answered, "what do you need a turkey for?"
> 
> "Never mind," he answered, "just get me back my turkey." But the sons
> ignored him and a month later someone stole the old man's camel. "What
> should we do?" the sons asked. "Find my turkey," said the father.
> 
> But the sons did nothing, and a few weeks later the man's daughter was
> raped. The father said to his sons: "It is all because of the turkey. When
> they saw that they could take my turkey, we lost everything."
> 
> America is that Bedouin elder, and for 20 years people have been taking our
> turkey. The Europeans don't favour any military action against Iraq, Iran or
> North Korea. Neither do I. But what is their alternative? To wait until
> Saddam Hussein's son, Uday, who's a bigger psychopath than his father, has
> bio-weapons and missiles that can hit Paris?

America is that Bedouin elder? This is silly. America is not old, not an
elder at anything, not lacking virility. Turkey?  (Ben Franklin wanted
the Turkey for the National Bird) No, America doesn't  need to restore
virility by eating Turkey or anything else. America is more like a
teenage boy with size 16 basketball sneakers and pimples. It needs to
have sex and soon, but it's only watching TV and stuffing its face with
chicken wings and candy bars.