Picture Of The Day: The Trap
While driving down a desert highway, I was ambushed. Hopelessly entangled, there was nothing I could do to save myself. I was irresistibly drawn, pulled in like a small, motherless space ship caught in the tractor beam of the alien mother ship.
Like staple to a magnet.
Like a moth to a flame.
Like my lovely wife to things made of chocolate.
Like George W. to defenseless, troubled countries THAT MATTER ECONOMICALLY (strangely, we're not in any big hurry to "promote democracy" in boring, useless Sudan, despite the fact that the Sudan government is killing thousands of its own people.)
Oops. Sorry. Got a little carried away...
[now reading: Dying in Darfur by Samantha Power]
3 Comments:
Our students just facilitated a discussion on the Sudan crisis and are leading an iniative to raise awareness and advocate for a response to that situation there...i need to learn more about it...
Yes, we do have a selective foriegn policy here in the US...lets talk more.
By the by, Sudan does matter economically: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/
Some countries think that oil contracts are better maintained by not upsetting the status quo. Liberals think conservatives disagree.
My troll like war-mongering shouldn't detract from the really important question: Where on a desert highway is that?
And I agree with you Matt the Sudan is something that should be talked about more. There are a lot of issues buried within this which speak to who we are and who we want to be.
Patrick,
What's a nice young Republican like you doing on the Human Rights Watch website? Shouldn't you be memorizing your Ken Lay biography or something useful?
As for the desert highway: I never reveal my sources. But someday you'll be driving along the road in the middle of nowhere and two things will happen. First, there will be a faint flash of recognition -- "I've seen this place somewhere before" -- and, second, you'll be overwhelmed by an inescapable urge to pull off the road, caught in the clutches of "The World Famous Tourist Trap."
Don't say I didn't warn you.
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