Onion is not a typo. It seems that the Union is like an onion because the more layers of corruption you peel off, the more it brings tears to your eyes. And at the very heart of the onion, the smell of corruption is so potent you cry as if you’d been pepper-sprayed. Need I say more? Yes.
Some queries on President Obama’s recent State of the Union address. It was like a direct response commercial, in which the announcer speaks very fast, enumerating endless product selling points, promising to polish your floor or ease your back pain or both quicker and more sufficiently than ever. Yes, we can!
Top of the laundry list, the president said, “Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought—and several thousand gave their lives.”
He neglects to mention this was an illegal and pointless war which he originally called “dumb,” but continued with for another two and a half years. After withdrawal of all troops, a religious civil war broke out and our remaining force of mercenaries has been left to deal with it, protect the Green Zone and the rest of the country. Next came . . .
“We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world. For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al Qaeda’s top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home.”
