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16:10 - International Camouflage 101
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060524/OPINION01/605240307/1008
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Well, this is sure inspiring.
The prevailing thought these days does seem to be that if we just wear gray bags over our heads and don't speak above a whisper, then maybe we can keep our lardy American butts from attracting any unwanted international attention.
Certainly any time anyone in a movie screams "I'm an American!" or something similar, it's because they're a parochial rube in a loud Hawaiian shirt who's been stomping all over the pure and innocent rest of the world and deserves every bit of the treatment he's likely to get wherever the gendarmes are dragging him. Clearly the solution ought to be that we should anonymize ourselves, the better to dissociate ourselves from any such red-faced poltroon whose antics have given our country such a bad name that it can never be exonerated.
We've learned the lesson well enough that extreme nationalism is to be defended against. I don't suppose anyone sees any negative consequences for extreme anti- nationalism, do they?
Via InstaPundit.
UPDATE: Maybe not. (Via Steven Den Beste.)
Still, though: I've been expecting this kind of thing for a while now. The sentiments I mentioned are real, or at least the impulses. I wouldn't be surprised if we do see stuff like this happening before long.
(Fake but accurate? Hey, all the cool kids are doing it. I don't wanna get left out.)
UPDATE: Yeah, I'd say "fake but accurate" is fair.
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Brian Tiemann
