What? How could they be so ungrateful? Not to mention Anti-American?

Do we need to use more White Phosphorus munitions there, and then charge them for it?

Maybe that will solve the problem.

If we keep doing what we have been doing, we will keep getting what we have been getting.

Of course, Iraq is a far distance from these refinery strikes in the USA.

Here is an odd tangent, but relevant.

I've watched parts of the PBS series "Make 'em Laugh" and have noted that many comedians did scathing criticism of the Establishment -- going all the way back to Charlie Chaplin. Before that, there was plenty of print media critique, from cartoons to pamphlets and even some real journalism.

I may not be a good comic, but I am concerned that we still have "Change" as a political fairy tale brought to us by the other fascist party in this country.

I do not envy President Obama at all. Between the ongoing Global War To Steal Resources And Maintain Full Spectrum Dominance, The War On Our Habitat, and The War Against Economic Reality, he has his hands full. Other nations can only envy us our ability to wage these wars all at once, at this point.

But it will be challenging to watch as we try to wage the continuing War On Unions. We will not likely ever need all of those refineries again. Worse, the Unions seem to share the fairy tale economic and political premises of the businesses with which they disagree. They do not see what is coming at all, and seem to believe the fairy tales.

Do we deserve this? Yes, we do!

Can we change? Yes, we will!

Will we still demand to live in a fairy tale? Yes, we will!

Will we learn from this experience and actually change ourselves?

That is an open question, I think.