Monday, July 30, 2007
Foreign Policy--Africa
-Best we can do is get some of our people out of there! Has to be
in the next few hours because the chaos will only get worse.
So, my best Colonel is commanding a fleet of armored Humvees.
-Prognosis?
-Half would be victory.
-The others?
-Be torn limb from limb.
-By...?
-Children. An army of children.
-Where...?
-Well, we trained and equipped three-quarters of them. Now they’ve flowed together with street gangs.
-Who is leading them? Is it a more or less organized propaganda effort?
-Nobody. Just a totally insane crawling body.
-Why were we training children to kill other children in the first place?
Will anyone be blamed this time? Is there anything we won’t do?
-Of course not. The army is a plaything. Like a video game or something.
-Best we can do is get some of our people out of there! Has to be
in the next few hours because the chaos will only get worse.
So, my best Colonel is commanding a fleet of armored Humvees.
-Prognosis?
-Half would be victory.
-The others?
-Be torn limb from limb.
-By...?
-Children. An army of children.
-Where...?
-Well, we trained and equipped three-quarters of them. Now they’ve flowed together with street gangs.
-Who is leading them? Is it a more or less organized propaganda effort?
-Nobody. Just a totally insane crawling body.
-Why were we training children to kill other children in the first place?
Will anyone be blamed this time? Is there anything we won’t do?
-Of course not. The army is a plaything. Like a video game or something.
