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18:20 - The Mecha of Mecca
http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2047
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Here's something that's pretty refreshing. SomethingAwful's Zack Parsons has put up his own colon-cleansing take on recent al Qaeda machinations, and it's stress-relieving. I mean it.
Al-Qaeda is no longer the fresh hotness. In fact, Al-Qaeda never was the fresh hotness. So they blew up the World Trade Center and killed three thousand people in one day. Yeah, that was shocking, mostly thanks to television news. Do you know who else killed three thousand people in one day? Just about everyone. In fact, as wars go, killing three thousand people in a single day is not exactly an epic accomplishment. During World War II the US and England firebombed Dresden and killed (according to some sources) over 200,000 people over a three day period, and we were the GOOD GUYS. Let me slow that down and run that by you again Al-Qaeda, we firebombed the refugee filled city of Dresden killing hundreds of thousands of people and history still recognizes the United States as one of the good guys.
Do you know why? Because we were better than the alternative. Do you know what's not better than the alternative? You.
The article gets a bit wishy-washy toward the end (Parsons seems to become engulfed in a flood of moral-equivalence-inducing sneer fluid that compels him to register at least a token bat at Christianity and Bush), but it's not bad. The remainder of the thing is tart and honest and not at all polluted with rectal-cranial-inversion syndrome. In other words, at least you don't have to worry that SomethingAwful is entirely in the hands of people who would have spent this past weekend on Market Street or Hollywood & Vine chanting "Death to America".
That being a real live concern these days makes me want to hit something very hard.
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Brian Tiemann
