Sick

When I'm feeling down I just link to posts from The Guardian. Brits are funny, but they don't always love Americans now do they? To be fair, they sort of set the highest bar possible for colonial interference and general malfeasance, such that, critiques, though warranted, may in fact be heightened by the embarrassment of their own prior ills. What we need is a nuanced defense of American imperialism. I say we turn to an American. Hey, at least I'm not quoting Harper's again. I eat sleep and drink terror alerts. However, that being said, perhaps it's time to wind down all those pesky foreign wars and maybe get out of Korea for a while. Are we really still fighting there? I think the main government program we should taper back on is foreign occupation. However, this would require us to get rid of a lot of military bases in places that we are not welcome. And what would those places do without us? Probably stop resenting a little. Lord knows with all the secular humanists out there we should be able to get this done? I thought it was all those pesky right wing Christians keeping our country at war under Bush. But, huh, it turns out under the new guy we still don't mind ramping up troops and firing off some missiles. As it turns out, people are not rational and our foreign policy is complex. However, it's probably time to take our complex foreign policy and put it work domestically. Also, I am sick.