Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The Quagmire Parable
The Quagmire Parable
by Robert Rowley
Everybody on our block agreed that the people living next door to me were a threat to the neighborhood. It was common knowledge that Mr. X was a tyrant in his own house; consequently, his two teenaged boys were menaces. They sped recklessly around our streets in their EuroRacers, blasting loud music from their boomboxes at all hours. When they were younger I once saw one of them carrying a switchblade, and a few years ago they shot a hole in my mailbox with a pellet gun. I called the cops on them for that, but the cops did nothing. ...
I really enjoyed reading this article, because it says the same things I was thinking when miserable failure's administration was war-drumming at Iraq. Rowley has placed (on a small scale so we can relate) the same type circumstances in his neighborhood with the "evildoers" on one side and the rest of the neighborhood on the other.
by Robert Rowley
Everybody on our block agreed that the people living next door to me were a threat to the neighborhood. It was common knowledge that Mr. X was a tyrant in his own house; consequently, his two teenaged boys were menaces. They sped recklessly around our streets in their EuroRacers, blasting loud music from their boomboxes at all hours. When they were younger I once saw one of them carrying a switchblade, and a few years ago they shot a hole in my mailbox with a pellet gun. I called the cops on them for that, but the cops did nothing. ...
I really enjoyed reading this article, because it says the same things I was thinking when miserable failure's administration was war-drumming at Iraq. Rowley has placed (on a small scale so we can relate) the same type circumstances in his neighborhood with the "evildoers" on one side and the rest of the neighborhood on the other.
