Bread and Circuses
03-Nov-04
“The people that one bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses!”
Juvenal, Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)
Juvenal, Satires
Roman poet & satirist (55 AD - 127 AD)
Congratulations America you win (if:)
- You believe our foreign policy should look like a John Wayne movie, where we can invade a nation even when they have not done anything to us.
- You believe that upon such an invasion, if the rationales used for that invasion are later shown to be false, it doesn’t matter.
- You believe that during those invasions and occupations, United States sanctioned torture is okay, and so is outsourcing torture to countries like Syria.
- You believe that a President lying to the American people about why our brave soldiers are dying is okay.
- You believe that the decision to take focus away from Osama bin Laden/Afghanistan as well as North Korea and putting it on Saddam and Iraq was the right decision.
- You believe that the continued freedom of the man who planned and executed the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the inability of our government to execute his capture or death is okay.
- You believe that it’s okay that the president that fought the creation of an independent 9/11 commission, fought the release of that commission�s report and fought the implementation of that commission�s recommendation.
- You believe that reading a children’s book while 3,000 Americans were murdered was acceptable behavior.