Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007)

George W. Bush said today that the U.S. must continue to bring international pressure to bear on Iran to end its ambitions to create nuclear weapons, even though a national intelligence assessment found that the country had halted its weapons program four years ago. Here are some other international initiatives that President Bush says we should be taking:

–*Continuing to put pressure on the no-longer existent Soviet Union

–*Ending South African Apartheid, which ended in 1994

–*Continuing to fight Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico

–*Continuing to fight Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Crimea

–*Putting down the Boxer Rebellion

–*Helping Great Britain in its fight with the South African Boers

–*Fighting the Mormon settlers in Utah

–*Putting down Shays’ Rebellion

–*Defeating the Confederate rebels at Spotsylvania Court House and Antietam

–*Continuing to work on creating a Jewish homeland

–*Driving the communists from Vietnam

–*Dismembering the Ottoman Empire

–*Protecting the Hanseatic League

–*Helping Justinian reconquer the Italian Peninsula

–*Driving the Moors from Granada and engendering a widespread Inquisition of the unfaithful

and finally,

–*George Bush thinks we should lay siege against Troy

Because George Bush knows history. He just doesn’t know when it has ended.