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A Tale of Two Dialogues
Two brief conversations that say a lot.
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The Iraq Quagmire Dialogue *
Right hand, holding a gun: "Left hand, I'm going to shoot us in the foot."
Left hand: "What? Don't do that! It'll bleed! It'll hurt!"
Right hand shoots foot.
Right hand: "Holy shit. Our foot's bleeding."
Left hand: "What the fuck! You just shot us in our foot! Are you fucking out of your mind?"
Right hand: "Why do you bitch all the time? Okay, fine. You're in charge now. What's your great idea?"
Left hand: "What the fuck do you mean? My idea was not shooting us in the foot."
Right hand: "So you don't have a Plan B?"
Left hand: "A Plan B? A plan other than not shooting ourselves in the foot? How about this: don't shoot us in the fucking foot?"
Right hand: "So you have no Plan B. So really, you just hate our foot, which you demonstrate by taking joy from the fact that your prediction that the foot would be bleed happened to be correct, though the evidence is still ambiguous. Do you really enjoy being right more than you regret the fact that our foot is bleeding?"
Left hand throws itself into the air in exasperation.
Our National Dialogue on Terrorism †
Why do they hate us?
They hate us because they're evil.
That's it, huh? That's the entire story?
Yes. They're evil. And they hate us because of our freedoms.
They hate us because of our freedoms?
But really because they're evil.
I know they're evil. I was just thinking that maybe if we understood what specifically seemed to trigger the--
Why are you apologizing for the terrorists?
I'm not. They're evil. You have no quarrel there. It's just that maybe if we understoo--
Why are you on the terrorists' side?
I'm not! I hate the terrorists. I was just saying we might be able to prevent the next--
Three thousand Americans dead. How can you defend al Qaeda?
Believe me, I was not defending them. What they did was horrific and inexcusable. They're evil. I was just--
Then why are you apologizing for them?
I'm not. I'm trying to say that maybe there are lessons we can--
* Reprinted from Cal Pundit
† Reprinted from Al Franken's Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them-A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
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