Politics Should be a Drinking Game

How odd, when all the problems of the world seem so simple, simple motor function can be so difficult.

Drinking last night with my father-in-law, a Vietnam veteran, the conversation migrated toward war; in particular, an inquiry on my part into his personal perception of how the Vietnam campaign was handled in general - in retrospect.

Hazily, the conversation quickly made it back through the current Iraq campaign, ambled over towards Hugo Chavez, lightly touching on the mainstream media, Israel's Lebanon campaign, on to international oil, over to international policy, and eventually somehow ended up at the fatalistic human mentality concerning the environment. Basically we covered the entire state of current human affairs; coming to reasonable and acceptable conclusions that were mutually agreeable on each topic as we progressed.

(e.g. YES, as a country, when it all shakes down, despite public discontent, America needs to do whatever it takes to stay on top, economically, if we all intend to enjoy the standard of living to which we are accustomed. {aside from whether it's morally correct}

However, it is possible that not everything that can be done is being done to ensure our cultures existence for more than the next generation, perhaps two; but it is debatable, ethically, as to whether is our responsibility to plan any further, and that it is more than apparent that no one as of yet has. Blah, Blah, Blah, Etc...)

My basic conclusion of the night was that everyone at the recent U.N. summit should have been drunk. Really drunk. I bet they would have passed a lot more resolutions that way.

Thank you, and goodnight.