The lost decade (2001 - 2009) RIP

[Nordic65]

There are many dark chapters in American history and this decade is one of them. It started with peace and unprecedented prosperity and looks like it's going to end in a orgy of incompetence, corruption and wasted opportunities.

America is a great country in every sense of the word, but such greatness spurs an equal need for virtue that is sorely lacking today where it is most needed - at the White House.

To illustrate how dark these days really are try this for a change. Imagine what the world would look like if the Bush administration had been in charge of some of the most defining moments in American history:

- New Deal (in your dreams...)
- World War II (not a good line of thought - not good at all)
- The Cold War (the mother of all nightmares - a nuclear holocaust applauded by RW-pundits)
- Creating the UN (not bloody likely...)
- Bretton Woods (It's that a golfer?)
- The Marshall Plan (Yes, GO Halliburton, you sexy little thing)
- Human rights (just say NO!)
- Cuban missile crisis (let the cockroaches rule the world - AMEN!)
- The Apollo-program and the crowning moment of American knowhow - landing a man on the moon (FUBAR)
- Great Society (better not go there...)
- The Environmental Protection Agency (supporting eco-terrorist. Are you kidding?)
- Ending the Cold War (Why?)

[AX10]

1. K&R

[hlthe2b]

2. Yup... how many of us will look upon it as anything other than...

something to endure... K&R

[thecrow]

3. I hope more than we can imagine.

K&R too

[spacelady]

4. It's got less to recommend finishing it, so why is it not done?

[MuseRider]

5. Hopefully because we kept up

with all of this crap we can now usher in a century of enlightenment. Hopefully.