National Security Is Not Pretty!
Howard Dean has revived the old Steve Martin comedy bit of the late seventies entitled "You Can Be A Millionaire and Never Pay Taxes". For those of you who don't remember, Martin's foolproof plan to foil the IRS began with:
"First...get a million dollars."
Dean's modern day equivalent reads (from his own website):
I (have) laid out four goals for American leadership in the world:
First, defeat the threat posed by terrorists, tyrants, and technologies of mass destruction.
Despite the fact that Dr. Dean has opposed everything President Bush has done in the past three years to do just that while offering no alternative solution, I think he is on the right track. All we have to do is simply claim a desire to defeat the enemy and things will work themselves out. There's no need to worry about the details. Just express a willingness to defeat terrorism and it's as good as done.
And when the United States is hit with an attack that makes September 11, 2001 look like a freaking mosquito bite, people like Howard Dean will be left saying, as Martin instructed when the IRS came looking for payment, "I forgot".
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