MAKING GLUE: THE CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA
According to Borat, the wild and crazy reporter from Kazakhstan currently invading American theatres, "old" is just plain old. Worn out.
While visiting an American antique store, a skeptical Borat (comedian Shasha Baron Cohen) tries to understand the shop owner explaining the premium Americans place on antiques when he accidentally knocks over a vase, only to slip again and again on the fragments until every fragile object within reach lay in shards.
With the antique dealer looking on incredulously, the accidental tourist, Borat, in his broken English says, "I have friend make glue."
When George Bush was still in control of Congress, he tied his best to goad the opposition party into presenting its plan to fix the mess in Iraq. Never mind he himself had no plan for victory other than staying the course until his personal escape clause in 08 kicked in. The president, sinking faster than a rock, was desperate to set a trap.
Iraq lay in shards after four years of American occupation and someone had to pick up the pieces. Bush had pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall, and all the kings men couldn't put him back together again. Yet the president had the temerity to say to Democrats, "I broke it --so how would you fix it?"
The sad truth about Bush's blunder is that no-one can put Humpty Dumpty back together. There are bad options and terrible options, and the president knew it. That the architect of the disaster had to be sequestered and stripped of power was certain. Beyond that, not all things in life can be fixed. Daddy would need to intervene.
George Herbert Walker Bush would use his ex-advisors -- the new Secretary of Defense Gates and the former Secretary of State Baker -- to "make glue" in an attempt to rescue their ex-boss's imbecile son. That was all Daddy Bush could do. There would never be integrity in the aftermath of Iraq's conquest: only a crude patchwork of hostile sectarian groups splitting at the seams over God and oil.
The antique shop owner looked around at Borat's carnage and informed the Kazakh journalist of the American adage, "you break it, you buy it." But seeing the glint in Borat's eye, you could tell he wasn't buying it. Hey, you can't pull the wool over Borat's (or Bush's) eyes. That damn piece of antiquity was old and worn out anyway, so "making glue" would be just fine.
According to Borat, the wild and crazy reporter from Kazakhstan currently invading American theatres, "old" is just plain old. Worn out.
While visiting an American antique store, a skeptical Borat (comedian Shasha Baron Cohen) tries to understand the shop owner explaining the premium Americans place on antiques when he accidentally knocks over a vase, only to slip again and again on the fragments until every fragile object within reach lay in shards.
With the antique dealer looking on incredulously, the accidental tourist, Borat, in his broken English says, "I have friend make glue."
When George Bush was still in control of Congress, he tied his best to goad the opposition party into presenting its plan to fix the mess in Iraq. Never mind he himself had no plan for victory other than staying the course until his personal escape clause in 08 kicked in. The president, sinking faster than a rock, was desperate to set a trap.
Iraq lay in shards after four years of American occupation and someone had to pick up the pieces. Bush had pushed Humpty Dumpty off the wall, and all the kings men couldn't put him back together again. Yet the president had the temerity to say to Democrats, "I broke it --so how would you fix it?"
The sad truth about Bush's blunder is that no-one can put Humpty Dumpty back together. There are bad options and terrible options, and the president knew it. That the architect of the disaster had to be sequestered and stripped of power was certain. Beyond that, not all things in life can be fixed. Daddy would need to intervene.
George Herbert Walker Bush would use his ex-advisors -- the new Secretary of Defense Gates and the former Secretary of State Baker -- to "make glue" in an attempt to rescue their ex-boss's imbecile son. That was all Daddy Bush could do. There would never be integrity in the aftermath of Iraq's conquest: only a crude patchwork of hostile sectarian groups splitting at the seams over God and oil.
The antique shop owner looked around at Borat's carnage and informed the Kazakh journalist of the American adage, "you break it, you buy it." But seeing the glint in Borat's eye, you could tell he wasn't buying it. Hey, you can't pull the wool over Borat's (or Bush's) eyes. That damn piece of antiquity was old and worn out anyway, so "making glue" would be just fine.
posted by R. Reynolds at 2:21 PM
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