11 comments to ““The enemy of my enemy is my friend.””

1. Aaron A:
   18 June 2007, on 10:51 pm

   This strategy worked great with Saddam and the Iran-Contra scandal…right?

2. Naomi:
   19 June 2007, on 12:03 am

   Why, oh, why - does it take a comic to put our most serious issues into a realistic framework? And why can’t our MSM do this?

   Just asking…

3. ChuckA:
   19 June 2007, on 1:13 am

   Hmmm…Let’s see…
   Reviewing your questions in #2, Naomi; pardon a little game show skit?
   Fade in to the 2007 version of the $64,000 Question…

   Host(ess?…erm…Mistress?) Naomi:
   “Starting, immediately with our only contestant…erm…Mr. Anonymous (Fundie?)!
   “Why, oh, why - does it take a comic to put our most serious issues into a realistic framework?”
   [cue the old $64K clock ticking theme.]
   Naomi: “Times up!”
   Contestant: “Erm…ummm….ooooh…let’s see…aaaa…’cause comics are, generally, extremely smart?”
   [Naomi smiles and gestures positively...the GifS audience cheers]
   N: “And why can’t our MSM do this?”
   [cue...what, again?...the $64K clock ticking theme.]
   N: “Times up!”
   C: “Aaaah…er…ooooh…eeee…’cause they’re…erm…
   gutless?”
   N: “Weeeell…yes!…But I think we were really looking for:
   Totally full of shit!”
   C: “Oh, I see…Well…do I get a prize, anyway?
   N: “Ummm…
   Get the flock outa here, you numbnuts asshole!” [See Naomi; I cleaned it up a bit!]

4. jimmy dean:
   19 June 2007, on 1:23 am

   Well arming our enemies is a good way to ensure perpetual war and profit for haliburton and co….

5. Poodles Rule:
   19 June 2007, on 7:18 am

   Ah… I still have such the Jon Stewart crush…

6. Jess Wundrun:
   19 June 2007, on 9:01 am

   Now we know where the pallets of money were dropped.

7. Cosmos:
   19 June 2007, on 11:35 am

   The enemy of my enemy is my friend…

   And the biggest problem is that people actually believe what they hear and read in the mainstream news media, yet think this is “just comedy.”…

8. Ourlady of Perpetual Motion:
   19 June 2007, on 12:06 pm

   It must be fun to have your own little war where you can just do whatever the hell you want to whomever you want and no one ever asks any unpleasant questions or even really cares what you’re doing so long as the reality shows and the petroleum revenues keep on comin’.

   I knew I should have been a despot when I grew up.

9. Tommykey:
   19 June 2007, on 12:33 pm

   I think it’s more like “the enemy of my friend is my enemy until my friend becomes my enemy, then the enemy of my former friend becomes my friend who might also be the enemy of my other friend who was formerly my enemy until another one of my friends became my enemy.”

10. vastleft:
    19 June 2007, on 12:49 pm

    Aaron A,

    On the other hand, supporting the mujahideen worked out well, didn’t it? It must have — we never hear Bush complain about that Bin-Laden guy anymore.

11. ben:
    8 July 2007, on 12:00 pm

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