Americans know nothing about the world yet rule it. Now they’re taking sides in Syria.
Americans: We Rule the World
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Good one. Couldn’t agree more. Listening to the typical American talk about foreign policy is one of the most embarrassing things a person can do. Stupid beer swilling conservatives talk about Israel as if they know the first thing about the conflict. What do they really know? Whatever Rush Limpballs said that day on the radio. Probably something along the lines of “America MUST back Israel, and Obama hates the Jews!”. Stupid Evian swilling liberals pontificate on how we must intervene in Darfur, when they couldn’t even find it on a map. What do they know about Darfur? Two things: (1) That hot and sexy George Clooney thinks it’s important, and (2) we liberals love to feel good about helping those helpless Africans.
Americans are so fucking dumb, they buy new diet fads every year thinking THIS will be the one that does it, the one that makes me lose the extra 200lbs hanging off my chin and ass.
Americans are so fucking dumb, more than 50% of them think the earth is only 6,000 years old, designed by on old white man sitting in the clouds.
Americans are so fucking dumb, they think Obama is a socialist – and they don’t even know what the fuck socialism is!
Yet we’re supposed to believe they have anything worth a shit to say about foreign policy? The average stupid fucking American needs to start at step one: Have some fucking shame! Admit your dumb and don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. Only then can you make any true progress as a person. Only then can you begin the long climb up from utter stupidity.
Great. As always, I love your foreign policy cartoons, where you’re funny and right at the same time. What I’d really like to know, is why is the awful Nick Kristof suddenly, albeit not too soon, silent in regards to Syria’s disturbances? Has he at last tired himself of promoting blood-shedding and nation-building in the name of “compassion”? Good riddance!
Oh, and @exkiodexian: Conservatives might swill “stupid beer”, but those of us non-conservative, non-socialist and non-liberal (or rather, those of us “Classical” liberals) like to savor our smart beer, thank you very much!
“the one that makes me lose the extra 200lbs hanging off my chin and ass.”
That is, genuinely, one of the most scathingly funny things I’ve read in a long time.
Exklodexian, I can’t but agree with much of what you have to say, but from what I understand, the polls do, in fact, indicate that average residents of the US (at least those who respond to pollsters’ queries) are significantly less inclined to support US wars of aggression abroad than are their so-called «representatives» in the US Congress and their masters in the government and the latter’s mouthpieces in the corporate media. Perhaps the problem lies not so much with the stupidity of the led, but rather with that – and the utter amorality – of the leaders ?…
Henri