Dealing with Terror - Ridicule!

[dsm]

An interesting take on how we should be dealing with terrorism and how the Bush administration failed to handle it properly:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060323/cm_usatoday/aneffectiveweaponagainstterroristsridicule

 

[Skeptic]

It's been done...

Vercotti: Doug (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.

2nd Interviewer: What did he do?

Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.

Presenter:By a combination of violence and sarcasm, the Piranha brothers by February 1966 controlled London and the Southeast of England.

(Monty Python's "Piranha brothers" sketch).

 

[rikzilla]

An interesting take on how we should be dealing with terrorism and how the Bush administration failed to handle it properly:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060323/cm_usatoday/aneffectiveweaponagainstterroristsridicule

Not saying that it's a bad idea. Just that I cannot imagine a POTUS of any political stripe responding to the sight of 3,000 dead Americans and a giant smoking hole in lower Manhattan by cracking dumb-terrorist jokes.

-z

 

[President Bush]

Not saying that it's a bad idea. Just that I cannot imagine a POTUS of any political stripe responding to the sight of 3,000 dead Americans and a giant smoking hole in lower Manhattan by cracking dumb-terrorist jokes.

This is me with Saudi Prince Abdullah here in Crawford. Maybe later, like a lot of other Saudis, he'll go enroll at a U.S. flight school.

 

[Mephisto]

I wonder if the beard and mustache come off with the glasses?